[ruby-core:40217] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5461][Open] Add pipelining to Net::HTTP

Issue #5461 has been reported by Eric Hodel.

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Feature #5461: Add pipelining to Net::HTTP
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5461

Author: Eric Hodel
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: lib
Target version: 1.9.x


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The attached patch adds HTTP/1.1 pipelining support to Net::HTTP.

Pipelining is only performed on HTTP/1.1 servers.  Net::HTTP will check if the server supports pipelining by using the first request in the list.  The user can override this via setting  (({http.pipelining = true})).

If a server does not support pipelining or there is an error during pipelining an error will be raised that contains the requests that not have been delivered yet and the responses that have been received.

The patch includes documentation explaining the fine details.

Example:

  requests = []
  requests << Net::HTTP::Get.new('/images/bug.png')
  requests << Net::HTTP::Get.new('/images/date.png')
  requests << Net::HTTP::Get.new('/images/find.png')

  http = Net::HTTP.new 'localhost'
  http.start do
    http.pipeline requests do |req, res|
      open File.basename(req.path), 'wb' do |io|
        io.write res.body
      end
    end
  end

Implementation notes:

* The current Net::HTTP tests make it very difficult to test bad behavior by servers.  In test/net/http/utils.rb I introduced a method to replace Net::BufferedIO with a subclass that can behave incorrectly.
* Net::HTTP#pipeline does not fall back to sending requests one-by-one for HTTP/1.1 servers.  I think this is acceptable as the user can use existing Net::HTTP code to send requests one-by-one.

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