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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KIOSlaves
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-01-21 9:53:31
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Lars Knoll wrote:

> > I suggest to default to use 1 slave per host/protocol until the
> > slave indicates that a higher number of connections are allowed in
> > paralel.
>
> Hmmm... for http, 2 connections at the same time are explicitly
> allowed, and needed in case of html pages, since one should start
> downloading style sheets as soon as possible (_while_ the main page
> is still loading). Without having downloaded all style sheets, khtml
> can't start rendering, so they should arrive as fast as possible.

Good point. The first (any) http connection could by send back to kio 
that it allows 2 simultaneous connections (or more depending on the 
server response).

Cheers,
Waldo

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