[RFC][PATCH]Speed improvement on the http transport: add keepalive support

[Aaron Bentley]

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John A Meinel wrote:
> Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> 
>>Thanks, I am started to work on bazaar after the deletion of urlgrabber; but I wasn't 
>>able to find the reason/bug why urlgrabber was removed: could you point me to the
>>message/reason ?
>>
> 
> 
> I don't remember the original reason. That was a while ago.
> 
> It was a comment by Aaron, so maybe he can shed some light on the subject.

1. It didn't work on Windows, because it used '\' as a url separator.
2. It wasn't part of Debian stable, meaning more work for Debian users
3. The way we were using it, the performance improvement was negligible.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar-ng/2005q2/001518.html

Aaron

Aaron
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