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Re: libcurl question, Range support for http

From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo_at_informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:22:57 +0100

Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:49:11AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> 3. Can I queue up a multitude of requests onto one easy_handler and
>> then perform them all?
>>
>> I know there is the multi interface but that sounds more like
>> downloading multiple files from various sources concurrently. I want
>> to download them all sequentialy with only one connect to the
>> server. But I don't want to send each request on its own and wait for
>> the round-robin delay till the data arrives.
>>
>> I actualy want only one file but possibly a lot of Range statements
>> which might have to be split up into multiple requests.
>
> The multi interface is a natural way to handle HTTP pipelining, but libcurl
> doesn't do that right now. It will reuse an existing easy handle, though,
> which at least saves you the connection establishment overhead.

Too bad. :(

>>>> Dan
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MfG
        Goswin
Received on 2004-11-26