Adding portsnap to the base system

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 17 09:43:21 GMT 2005


Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>     0n Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:39:01AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: 
>     >I can see that it would be very easy to implement _persistent_ HTTP,
>     >but implementing _pipelined_ HTTP is quite a different matter...
> 
> erm ... what is meant by "_pipelined_ HTTP" ?

I use the word in the sense that it is used in section 8.1.2.2 of RFC 2616:

   A client that supports persistent connections MAY "pipeline" its
   requests (i.e., send multiple requests without waiting for each
   response).

Colin Percival


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