Re: exact number of connections (was Re: limit connection cache growth on multi interface)

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

On 6/10/07, Aleksandar Lazic <al-...@no...> wrote:
>
>
> >Let's say, somebody wants to emulate behavior of Firefox or MSIE, using
> >libcurl.
>
> That's a very interesting question for a commandline tool, imho.
>
>
> I would go like this:
>
> ---
> set max_connections_per_site <NUM>
> set deep_or_breadth          (DEEP|BREADTH)
> set deep_or_breadth_count    <NUM>
> set wait_human_read_time     <NUM>
>
> repeat as long as deep_or_breadth_count is not reached {
>
> get site (e.g.: index.html)
> parse site and ( count links and get the needed elements from remote
>                  server
>               || if element is to get make new connection but not more
>                  the max_connections_per_site
>                )
>
> wait_human_read_time()
>
> if breadth && deep_or_breadth_count not reached {
>     get the next link from same directory-level (e.g.: /, /news/, ...)
>   }elsif deep && deep_or_breadth_count not reached {
>     get the next link from the next directory-level
>   }
> }


Thanks for your suggestion


> Do you plan to add this into curl-loader ;-)?



Kind  of  yes.
Currently, there is a 1 to 1 mapping between the CURL-handle and
curl-loader's
client_context object; it requires certain re-design to think about.

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Sincerely,
Robert Iakobashvili,
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