Re: [NSE] http.lua pipeline optimization

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 06:03:53PM +0100, Jesper Kückelhahn wrote:
> I've attached a patch that removes duplicate requests from the http
> pipeline in the http.lua lib. This is done internally and transparently, so
> there is no changes to the interface of the functions 'pipeline_add' and
> 'pipeline_go' . The advantage is that only the needed amount of requests
> are sent to the server.

Thanks for this patch. What situation did you encounter requiring this
deduplication? The HTTP pipeline code is already pretty magic, and I'm
reluctant to add more special actions behind the scenes.

David Fifield
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