- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:16:23 -0400
- To: Larry Coffin <lcoffin@PointInfinity.com>, www-lib@w3.org
At 10:24 03/07/1999 -0400, Larry Coffin wrote: > > I'm trying to develop a tool for simulating multiple HTTP and FTP >clients to a server and was looking at libwww for this purpose. But from >what I can tell, it does not create multiple connections to the same client >-- at least not with mget. When using HTTP/1.1, it's actually often faster to use a single connection instead of multiple connections - especially if you are downloading several pages from the same site. You can look at this paper for some more details: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html >(As a side note, if you use mget to test FTP >downloads, all but the first connection fails.) Yes, you are right - there are some connection management problems in the FTP module - it is primarily a question of bit rot - it hasn't been updated as much as the HTTP module. It may be connected to a problem of listening on a port doing passive data connections. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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