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

[John A Meinel]

Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:
> 
>> PyCurl does a few useful things
>>
>>  * dns caching
>>  * keepalive, including to proxies
>>  * future potential for overlapped requests and within-request progress
>> indications
>>  * apparently does this well on Windows too
> 
> I have not looked at PyCurl yet, but is it possible to set generic
> headers in the requests?  We need that for range accesses.
> 
> ~j

Yes. In fact he is already setting 'Cache-control: must-revalidate'
header to work better through proxies.

John
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