Adding portsnap to the base system

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:39:01AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: 

    >Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    >> Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> writes:
    >>>Yes, pipelined HTTP.  Basically, I spent six months on-and-off, and
    >>>at least two weeks of actual work, trying to fit pipelined HTTP into
    >>>fetch(3)... but the design of that library is all around the idea of
    >>>fetching a single file at once.  In the end I gave up and wrote my
    >>>own code (phttpget) in under 24 hours.
    >> 
    >> You are mistaken.  Pipelined HTTP can be implemented in libfetch with
    >> the same ease (and the same limitations) as FTP connection caching,
    >> which was included from the start.
    >
    >Well, err... go ahead, then.  I'm not going to tell the author of a
    >library that his library can't be modified to include a feature; all
    >I can do is point out that my best efforts were insufficient.
    >
    >I can see that it would be very easy to implement _persistent_ HTTP,
    >but implementing _pipelined_ HTTP is quite a different matter...

erm ... what is meant by "_pipelined_ HTTP" ?

 - aW