On Sun, 05 May 2013 13:26:34 GMT, Matthew Fong wrote:
Hey,
I was just checking the repo and saw that there is a file called "todo.txt" and I was curious what "support pipelining for HttpClient" means, because I was looking to maybe improve the HttpClient as I would like to use it for a project of my own.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
The idea is to change HttpClient to use a separate task for writing a number of requests in sequence, while reading the responses in another task (as opposed to performing all of these requests in parallel on different connections, or performing completely sequenced requests).
I think this needs an addition to the API, as this seems like something that needs to be manually tuned. I haven't looked at how other frameworks do this, but one possibility would be a HttpClient.request method that takes a list of URLs and then calls the request/response callbacks for each URL and performs the pipelined requests before returning to the caller.