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RE: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Randall R Schulz'" <rrschulz at cris dot com>,"'Dario Alcocer'" <alcocer at helixdigital dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:26:04 +1000
- Subject: RE: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Randall R Schulz
> Sent: Friday, 12 July 2002 2:28 AM
> To: Dario Alcocer; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages
>
>
> Dario,
>
> Naturally. Usually one opens a separate connection for each
> resource to be
> retrieved via HTTP. Only somewhat recently (using the HTTP
> 1.1 protocol
> revision) has it been possible to even try to get multiple
> resources via a
> single HTTP connection.
>
> I agree with the work-around, and now that I've noticed the
> problem, I do
> the same.
Actually, HTTP/1.0 supports multiple resources on the same TCP
connection - as long as the resource size is known in advance. That is,
range requests, and static objects.
Cheers,
Rob
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