Bug#395538: debmirror: should be able to batch-download (pipeline) over http

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:23:42 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:

> >     Keep-alive and the new HTTP/1.1 module can now be simply
> >     enabled with something like:
> >
> >           LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);
> Thanks for the "heads up" Gregor. I'll look into implementing this, but 
> I'll probably wait until later in the release cycle to do it as I'd like 
> to keep debmirror installable on Lenny (and thus compatible with LWP in 
> stable) for now.

Since this feature exists since 5.53_91 (April 2001) and even etch
has 5.805-1 it should be safe to implement it at any time that's
convenient for you without breaking backwards compatibility.

Cheers,
gregor

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