[Freeciv-Dev] Re: RFC Metaserver overhaul

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Reinier Post wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:31:38PM -0800, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > Meanwhile, Vasco pointed out that if we're moving away from UDP, we'll
> > be using a blocking TCP connection.  How do people feel about having
> > this blocking process in the server?  Should we remain UDP?
>
> Why would it need to block?

You need to establish a TCP connection. That takes some time.
HTTP is based on TCP.

> If all else fails, we can use a slave process just to send the updates.

Yes.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa