- From: Larry Coffin <lcoffin@PointInfinity.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:59:17 -0400
- To: 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: Yes, but that is not what I am trying to do -- I'm trying to simulate multiple clients connecting to the server to see how it performs under various load conditions. But I was actually able to do what I wanted by writing very simple HTTP/FTP clients that just do the basics needed to open the connections and download a specific file. Using pthreads I was able to open multiple simultaneous connections from the same program. Thanks, ---Larry +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Larry Coffin lcoffin@PointInfinity.com Point Infinity http://www.PointInfinity.com Nantucket, Massachusetts 508-325-6677 * fax: 325-6676 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Adopted kids are such a pain -- you have to teach them how to look like you ..." -- Gilda Radner -
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