Faith of Correspondents?

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Wed Nov 17 18:31:17 UTC 1999


At 12:37 PM -0500 11/17/99, Lex Spoon wrote:

>Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
[snip]
>
>It's the one that solves simultaneous requests, in the way that you
>originally meant simultaneous requests :).  Specifically, it lets
>multiple connections queue up on a single listening socket, instead of
>requiring you to create a new listening socket for each connection.

Oh, good! That's key. Does it dup the socket and pass it off to the
processing thread for each connection?

>  One
>specific case where this really helps is if you have HTML pages on a
>Squeak server which inline images that are on that same server--web
>browsers will end up requesting the inlined images all at the same time.

Ah, minnow isn't using this yet, right? Because the prim isn't available
for the mac yet? (I had this trouble with the screenshot page.)

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.





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