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Re: Can Curl round-robin IP addresses for successive connects?

From: Rainer Canavan via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 19:09:14 +0200

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 6:36 PM Jason Proctor via curl-library
<curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> Dear Curl,
>
> Our application pulls resources from CloudFront and we noticed some
> significant bandwidth capping. Turns out that for maximum throughput,
> Amazon recommend requests be spread across the IP addresses returned
> by the DNS call.
>
> However from looking at Curl_connecthost() and related functions, it
> seems that Curl only round-robins through cached addresses when there
> is a connect error.

I think you should set up one curl handle for each address using CURLOPT_RESOLVE
and then re-use the handles round-robin, so that you can benefit from
connection
re-use on TCP-connections that are already warmed up, as well as parallelism to
multiple servers.

Rainer
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Received on 2020-10-01