"First packet" may not always be the first packet, given Connection:
keep-alive. Basically what I'm saying is that there are no guarantees that
this will continue working, or work consistently. You seem to have a good
understanding of the risks involved, but for me I'd sooner use
child_process.spawn('curl', [url]) over the monkey patch.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Marcel Laverdet <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> By heavy load I'm talking about network traffic, either on your end,
>> their end, or any hop in between. "In the first packet" is certainly *not*
>> something I'd recommend anyone to depend on, as that depends on a whole lot
>> of things.
>>
>
> Not really - TCP is more reliable that way than you think. No matter the
> load, that first "packet" isn't going to get fragmented to any smaller
> parts. Especially since it's actually SSL, so it's not even really a
> packet, but an event in node happening, with buffering already taking place.
>
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