Re: [Bug-wget] TCP Fast Open for HTTP

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Thursday 28 May 2015 10:26:41 Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Hubert Tarasiuk <address@hidden> writes:
> > I have talked with Giuseppe and he suggested that we might not do TCP
> > Fast Open support for FTP at this time (he argued that FTP is slow
> > either way :).
> > 
> > Instead I might focus on implementing some basics of Metalink protocol
> > for HTTP and FTP resources in Wget.
> > 
> > Do you have any thoughts about that?
> 
> I wouldn't even have an option for --tcp-fast-open and avoid adding such
> low level details to the command line.  I would rather go for an env
> variable like TCP_FAST_OPEN=1, that wget might honor or not and not
> worry where it is not supported.
> 
> What do you think?

I would prefer a variable for wgetrc (and thus a command line option).
Having some switches in wgetrc and some within environment variables is not 
consistent and (at least for me) hardly maintainable / hard to remember.

I would leave away the configure option --enable-tcp-tfo. Instead just use the 
constants defined in <sys/socket.h>, as Hubert already does.

Regards, Tim