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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: "'Randall R Schulz'" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>,
   "'Dario Alcocer'" <alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:26:04 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Randall R Schulz
> Sent: Friday, 12 July 2002 2:28 AM
> To: Dario Alcocer; cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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


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