Scott Raney wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Phil Davis wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Hey, somebody help me understand. The "open" card in the MT Ref says:
> > ----start----
> > To open multiple sockets to the same host:port address, an optional
> > connection identifier can be supplied by appending it with the |
> > character as a delimiter (e.g., "www.metacard.com:80|1").
> > ----end----
> >
> > Could someone offer a plausible example of why I might want to do
> > this? It's just new to me; I'm sure it'll make sense once I understand
> > it (which is about as circular as, "this tastes good if you like it" -
> > :-\ )
>
> If you were writing a WWW browser in MetaCard you might want to get a
> page and then start getting all of the images on that page at once.
> This would require opening multiple connections to the server. As it
> turns out this seldom increases performance (and with dialup lines it
> often actually decreases it) but most browsers do it I think so that
> they can do the progressive display of the images. Of course,
> MetaCard doesn't support progressive display of images, so I guess my
> example is kind of bogus when you get right down to it ;-)
Ah, but what an attempt! Your logic is clear and powerful - I mean, you
even talked yourself out of your answer! :0)
(Thanks - and I bet there's a situation out there just waiting to be
discovered, where this is the optimum solution.)
> Regards,
> Scott
>
>
> > Thanks.
> >
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