Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages

[Robert Collins]

> -----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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