From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2012-02-10T13:03:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] net-http-persistent 2.4.1 Released

On Feb 7, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Ryan Davis wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2012, at 01:40 , Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>>> net-http-persistent version 2.4.1 has been released!
>>> 
>>> * http://docs.seattlerb.org/net-http-persistent
>>> * https://github.com/drbrain/net-http-persistent
>>> 
>>> Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP plus a speed fix for Ruby
>>> 1.8.
>>> It's thread-safe too!
>>> 
>>> Using persistent HTTP connections can dramatically increase the speed of
>>> HTTP.
>>> Creating a new HTTP connection for every request involves an extra TCP
>>> round-trip and causes TCP congestion avoidance negotiation to start over.
>> 
>> Could net-http-persistent be used with Faraday so that consecutive API calls
>> (e.g. for paginating through a long list, where only 200 entries are
>> returned
>> per API call) could be more efficient? Would this be a useful use case for
>> net-http-persistent?
>> 
>> Searching for 'net-http-persistent' on the Faraday project
>> 
>> https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday/
>> 
>> did not reveal any existing references. And searching for Faraday on
>> the net-http-persistent project did not reveal relevant results.
> 
> This is just a guess, but I think out of the box the answer is no. But looking at:
> 
> https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday/blob/master/lib/faraday/adapter/net_http.rb#L78
> 
> it looks like it is probably very easy to add the support.

It would be better to keep this part:

https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday/blob/master/lib/faraday/adapter/net_http.rb#L42-76

and rewrite the bit above that to set up Net::HTTP::Persistent instead.