On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Vincenzo Moccia wrote:

> Hi, my app uses libcurl to send HTTP POST requests to a server. I noticed
> that when the POST body is larger than 1K, performance degrades
> significantly.

What libcurl on what operating system? Did any analyses with wireshark or
similar to see if the degration is larger than what can be expected?

> Is this because large POST bodies are sent in multiple chunks or what?

Possibly, yes

> Can I change this behavior?

No, not without changing the libcurl source code. But of course we should have
the highest possible performance even when doing multiple send()s...

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