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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kioslave/ftp
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-11-30 19:07:20
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On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 10:30:51AM +0100, Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > 
> > > > kio_ftp keeps the connection to the ftp server open until the hostname
> > > > changes :)
> > > 
> > > And one can do a similar thing with the connection to http servers. It would
> > > speed up download times of web pages quite a lot, since most webpages consist f
> > > a lot of small files, so building up the connection for every request
> > > seperately wastes a lot of time. 
> > 
> > Doesn't it do that already? (On servers which support HTTP 1.1)
> 
> No, it doesn't. It closes the connection after every request. There seem to be
> some hooks in kio_http to support keeping the connection open, but it looks
> like it's not implemented at the moment.

What I don't understand is that, for me, kio_ftp as well, doesn't keep
connections. And Simon seems to say it does for him. Strange...

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