On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Andre Majorel wrote: > > No, I mean downloading multiple files from the SAME uri in parallel, > > instead of downloading files one-by-one-by-one (thus saving time on a > > fast pipe). > > This doesn't make sense to me. When downloading from a single server, the > bottleneck is generally either the server or the link ; in either case, > there's nothing to win by attempting several simultaneous transfers. Unless > there are several servers at the same IP and the bottleneck is the server, > not the link ?
That would also be violating the RFCs in regard on to how to behave as a Good User Agent (tm). Never use more than at most 2 connections to the same host from a single client. What does spead up things though, is persistant connections. One might also argue that pipelining can do a little too. -- Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77 ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol