Re: Clarification on PMM

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>   I am new to the polipo proxy so I have some doubts regarding it. I want
> to understand how does PMM(Poor Man Multiplexing) works, is it something
> like downloading a big file in multiple chunks in different TCP connections
> and passing it back to the client, which requested.

No, it's the opposite: interleaving the download of multiple files over
a single connection.

> If PMM works like this, it should help in accelerating the download
> speed. If PMM doesn't work in that way, is there any option supported
> by Polipo to accelerate the download speed by downloading the data in
> multiple range over multiple TCP connection.

Sorry, there isn't.

-- Juliusz

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