Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Robert Collins" To: "'Randall R Schulz'" , "'Dario Alcocer'" , Subject: RE: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:26:04 +1000 Message-ID: <001801c22921$902f3e30$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020711092215.020dbf78@pop3.cris.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal > -----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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/