HTTP keepalive? (Was Re: Pullable Mercurial kernel repo)

[Arun Sharma]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:48:47PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> Well, hmm. I'd like keepalive. It'll cut the number of packet round
> trips in half or more. And it's also good for speeding up old-http, of
> course.
> 
> But I kind of shy away from pulling in big chunks of other packages
> unless it's unavoidable. Can you run the test at work with -d on up
> until it says "adding changesets" and figure out if it's doing an
> unreasonable number of connections?

It looks like the client is doing the right thing. The issue is that 
hg serve side of things need to support keepalive as well.

How about making hg depend on urlgrabber library for keepalive?

	-Arun