On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Peter Kakoma wrote:
(I'm CC'ing my response over to the libcurl list so that other interested
parties get to see what might be happening and can contribute or just be
informed.)
The idea isn't new and we (in the curl project) have thought about before
how it could or should be done, but there's not yet any code in libcurl
that enables it.
I'd love to jump in on implementing support; I need the feature enough to
take the steps through what in my head is a steep learning curve. Off to
look through the code. Any pointers are more than welcome
Excellent!
A few immediate pointers:
1 - join and discuss details and implementation on the curl-library list, as
that's where all the libcurl hacking is done. This list (curl-and-php) is
for the PHP binding. (and I'm not a PHP guy, really)
2 - The API to share connections between handles would be done using the share
interface. Read up how it works today and how it can already share things
between handles as a good introduction.
3 - See 'struct conncache' and lib/conncache.[ch] for the implementation
details on how the connection cache works. You basically need a way to
lock the access and exclusively extract a connection for use, so that
multiple independent handles can be made to share a single pool.
--
/ daniel.haxx.se
-------------------------------------------------------------------
List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library
Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
