Bug#395538: debmirror: should be able to batch-download (pipeline) over http

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:10:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Debmirror uses a perl module for the http transfer (LWP::UserAgent)
> and I would have thought that uses keep-alive automatically. While
> keep-alive is not true pipelining it is a neccessary first step for
> it. I can't send to requests at once if the connection gets torn down
> after the first.
> 
> I'm reassigning this to libwww-perl for implementation of keep-alive.

From upstream Changes:

2001-04-20   Gisle Aas <gisle at ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_91
    [..]
    Keep-alive and the new HTTP/1.1 module can now be simply
    enabled with something like:

          LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);


Cheers,
gregor
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