Multiple clients is a nice feature, but has a quite low hit ratio
compared to complexity it brings (out of which only about 80% is
correcly handled today.. there are for example memory issues when the
clients run at different speeds, and the problem that we cannot stop
caching large objects since there might be disk clients attached)
The ability to reattach to a download is nice and can probably be kept
without too much increase in code complexity, but storage of partial
objects should bring about the same benefits in most cases, more so by
time as more and more servers supports ranges.
/Henrik
Duane Wessels wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> > I'll second this I think, and kill the feature that there can be
> > multiple clients listening to one server connection. Having the
> > possibility of multiple clients makes things quite complicated.
> >
> > I'd also kill the ability to reattach to a "not-yet-aborted" request,
> > based on the assumption that we can implement storate of partial
> > objects.
>
> I think those are both very useful features. I've heard from a number
> of users who really like that. Before going too far down that path
> I suggest getting some input from the user base.
Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 18:26:06 MST
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