twisted much?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Chris McCormick wrote:

> > Also note that http/1.1 prohibits more than 2 concurrent connections to
> > a single hostname:port combination, and that is only allowed so that you
> > can use one connection for interactive (small) requests and one to
> > pipeline the bulk of the data through.
>
> Please excuse my ignorance, but what's wrong with using Python's
> BaseHTTPServer in threaded mode for this?

as the name implies, BaseHTTPServer implements a server, which makes it
a bit less useful as a client.

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