Client could use http pipelining, it is widely supported by web servers. It works by issuing multiple http requests over a single connection without waiting for the replies. Server can then send data without any breaks effectively eliminating all round-trip issues.
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining

On 2012-01-26 01:05, Ross Bemrose wrote:
 From my understanding, mods add one path at a time to the downloads
table, and the client has no idea that they're part of a larger package.
Therefore, it'd be impossible to aggregate files like this without
completely overhauling how the downloads table works on the client and
server.

On 1/25/2012 3:32 PM, Claudio Beretta wrote:
A related request: allow multiple resource files to be packed in a single
(LZMA?) compressed archive.


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