[Freeciv-Dev] Re: RFC Metaserver overhaul

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:46:49PM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Reinier Post wrote:
> > Why would it need to block?
> You need to establish a TCP connection. That takes some time.
> HTTP is based on TCP.

So set the socket non-blocking before calling connect(2), and then
select(2) it for writing...

        Ben
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