From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 09:43:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980BB16A41F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:43:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C0F43D48 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:43:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.215]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ILD00AIK1HJRRB0@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:39:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ILD004K71HJRGL0@pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:39:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0ILD0093H1HIZ1@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:39:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:39:18 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050817084518.GG25467@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> To: "Wilkinson, Alex" Message-id: <430305C6.2060407@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F62C5F.6000609@freebsd.org> <20050807.101746.68985623.imp@bsdimp.com> <42F636BE.3020906@freebsd.org> <8664ub4bp3.fsf@xps.des.no> <42FCA675.7090300@freebsd.org> <20050817084518.GG25467@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding portsnap to the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:43:21 -0000 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