From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Determining whether a TCP connection is up
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:09:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r4dysun6.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7gfya4ls.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:32:26 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Another option is to kill connections after some time of inactivity,
> rather than leave them open and suffer a timeout next time we need to
> use it.
Yes. But it's not very nice for the servers. NNTP and IMAP servers do
the access control stuff upon connection, which can be
resource-intensive.
The earliest version of the ... Mozilla? or whatever they were called at
the time? (I think) ... news reader famously was written in a
connection-less method which made a news connection for every action it
made. It DDoS-ed several NNTP servers.
Not that Gnus would have that effect. >"?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-12 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-03 12:30 Determining whether a TCP connection is up Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-03 14:09 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-03 16:01 ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-05 2:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-05 2:33 ` chad
2013-08-05 2:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-05 10:34 ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-05 14:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-05 15:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-08-05 15:51 ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-05 17:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06 8:51 ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-06 9:59 ` joakim
2013-08-06 13:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 17:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2013-08-13 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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