[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Keep-Alive and Max Simultaneous Connections

2009-04-09 Thread orange80
Yeah, I was just wondering though if all the overhead of setting up and tearing down connections for each request makes sense when a client might need to download hundreds of statuses (to be stored in local cache) the first time someone uses it. On Apr 9, 3:34 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > I would gue

[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Keep-Alive and Max Simultaneous Connections

2009-04-09 Thread Doug Williams
Right on, Chad. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > > I would guess that when you have millions of connection requests a day > coming into a few different servers, you don't want the connection to > stay open for any lo

[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Keep-Alive and Max Simultaneous Connections

2009-04-09 Thread Chad Etzel
I would guess that when you have millions of connection requests a day coming into a few different servers, you don't want the connection to stay open for any longer than it needs to be. Get in, serve data, get out. -Chad On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM, orange80 wrote: > > Any reason why not?

[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Keep-Alive and Max Simultaneous Connections

2009-04-09 Thread orange80
Any reason why not? Just curious. Nice API by the way :) Thanks, Jamie On Apr 9, 12:47 am, John Adams wrote: > On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:33 PM, orange80 wrote: > > > Yeah, I started checking the headers and realized that.  It doesn't > > seem like there's any hard limit on simultaneous connection

[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Keep-Alive and Max Simultaneous Connections

2009-04-08 Thread John Adams
On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:33 PM, orange80 wrote: Yeah, I started checking the headers and realized that. It doesn't seem like there's any hard limit on simultaneous connections though so that helps quite a bit. Our web servers do not support Keep-Alive. -j --- John Adams Twitter Operations j.

[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Keep-Alive and Max Simultaneous Connections

2009-04-08 Thread orange80
Yeah, I started checking the headers and realized that. It doesn't seem like there's any hard limit on simultaneous connections though so that helps quite a bit. Thanks! Jamie On Apr 8, 9:46 pm, Steve Brunton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:51 PM, orange80 wrote: > > > Does the Twitter API

[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Keep-Alive and Max Simultaneous Connections

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Brunton
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:51 PM, orange80 wrote: > > Does the Twitter API server support keep-alive?  I can't seem to get > it to work with Apache HttpClient 4.  Also is there a limit to the > number of simultaneous connections? > Seeing as how it sends back a "Connection: close" header I'm going