Re: [Bug-wget] GSoC15: Speed up Wget's Download Mechanism

[Gisle Vanem]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I don't see any threads created by run_with_timeout on my system, when
> I download the above URL.  In fact, if I set a breakpoint in
> run_with_timeout, the only 2 calls to it during the whole download are
> from getaddrinfo_with_timeout and from connect_with_timeout, both with
> timeout of zero, which calls the function synchronously, both on
> Windows and on Posix hosts.
>
> So I guess I don't see what Gisle describes as "separate thread for
> HTTPS reads".  What am I missing?

It depends on what 'opt.read_timeout' is globally. So
don't use "read-timeout = 0" in your wgetrc.


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