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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kioslave/ftp
From:       Matthias Welk <welk () fokus ! gmd ! de>
Date:       1999-12-01 9:40:53
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:

> 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...
> 

Look for 'PersistentConnections' in your kioslaverc and change the value
to true if it is set to false. If this entry doesn't exist persistent
connections are used at default.

Greetings, Matthias.
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