Adding portsnap to the base system

[Colin Percival]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> writes:
>>Yes, pipelined HTTP.  Basically, I spent six months on-and-off, and
>>at least two weeks of actual work, trying to fit pipelined HTTP into
>>fetch(3)... but the design of that library is all around the idea of
>>fetching a single file at once.  In the end I gave up and wrote my
>>own code (phttpget) in under 24 hours.
> 
> You are mistaken.  Pipelined HTTP can be implemented in libfetch with
> the same ease (and the same limitations) as FTP connection caching,
> which was included from the start.

Well, err... go ahead, then.  I'm not going to tell the author of a
library that his library can't be modified to include a feature; all
I can do is point out that my best efforts were insufficient.

I can see that it would be very easy to implement _persistent_ HTTP,
but implementing _pipelined_ HTTP is quite a different matter...

Colin Percival