[ANN] net-http-persistent 1.4.1 Released

[Eric Hodel]

net-http-persistent version 1.4.1 has been released!

* http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/net-http-persistent

Persistent connections using Net::HTTP plus a speed fix for 1.8. It's
thread-safe too!

Changes:

### 1.4.1 / 2010-10-13

* Bug Fixes
* Don't finish the connection when we're retrying, reset it. Patch by =
James Tucker.

 

[Clifford Heath]

net-http-persistent version 1.4.1 has been released!

Nice one, Eric!

Just a quick question: Does this support pipelining?
Meaning where I can fire off a request, and before
waiting for a response, fire off another one, then
read both responses (or auto-fire the second one again
if the server dropped it)?

If it doesn't support pipelining, would that require
an API change, or just an implementation detail?

I've always wondered why browsers didn't make more use
of pipelining, it's a great way to reduce latency.

Clifford Heath.

 

[Clifford Heath]

Bump?

Nice one, Eric!

Just a quick question: Does this support pipelining?
Meaning where I can fire off a request, and before
waiting for a response, fire off another one, then
read both responses (or auto-fire the second one again
if the server dropped it)?

If it doesn't support pipelining, would that require
an API change, or just an implementation detail?

I've always wondered why browsers didn't make more use
of pipelining, it's a great way to reduce latency.

Clifford Heath.

 

[Mike Dalessio]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

Bump?

If you're looking for multiple concurrent HTTP connections, take a look at
Paul Dix's typhoeus: http://github.com/pauldix/typhoeus

 

[Clifford Heath]

If you're looking for multiple concurrent HTTP connections, take a look at
Paul Dix's typhoeus: http://github.com/pauldix/typhoeus

Cool project, but not what I mean.

Pipelining means sending more than one HTTP request down the socket
at a time, before reading back the first response. It's a way to
reduce TCP latencies, beyond keep-alive.

Clifford Heath.