Re: Design document

Hi Juliusz,

Yes, I agree its a kind of radical design, but to do something on
that, I need to understand the Polipo's current functionality. If you
have some document which helps in understanding the Polipo design it
will be great if you can share it with me.

Thanks,
-Rajeev

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am trying to add a new functionality,if a client is downloading a bigger
>> file (let's say 20M) then at WAN side Polipo can make multiple TCP
>> connections (let's say 2) and in each connection a different http range can
>> be downloaded in parallel, once 1st connection download is done by
>> forwarding the data to the client soon after we can start sending the data
>> which we downloaded on the second connection.
>
> This cannot be done easily, since Polipo assumes that at a given time
> there's at most one server-side connection per URL -- for example, the
> OBJECT_INPROGRESS flag is a flag, not a counter.
>
> It's a fairly radical redesign you're suggesting.
>
> -- Juliusz

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