> In general, portions of an HTTP request can be transmitted
> over separate TCP packets if an application (in this case,
> polygraph) sets the TCP_NODELAY option on the socket, and
> if it writes portions of the HTTP request using multiple
> calls to write() to the socket.
I would probably claim that such an application was badly broken.
Separate writes of logically associated data (say the headers of an HTTP
request) is simply asking for trouble, and setting TCP_NODELAY is just
an ugly kludge to try to cover it up.
rick jones
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