Re: collapsed forwarding

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Does/can polipo collapse the requests into one and wait for the response
> (which squid calls "collapsed forwarding")?

Yes.  At any given time, there is at most one server-side request
pending for a given URL.  If multiple clients are requesting the same
URL, then multiple client-side requests will be satisfied with a single
server-side request if possible.

> When I tried this, a while ago, by blasting identical requests at it,
> it looked like Polipo was sending multiple requests until a certain
> point, which was maybe when the reply was received.

No, this cannot happen.

> (Obviously if the reply is "private" then the q'd requests waiting for the
> response would need to be sent

Yes, that is what happens.

                                        Juliusz

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