Re: Re-use connection for svn:externals

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Phillip Hellewell <sshock_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright.  Here are my thoughts so far based on what others have said:
>
> I'm not quite sure about Justin's suggestion, because I don't think the
> delay is in establishing the TCP connection; I think it is in performing the
> authentication and stuff.  So just re-using a TCP connection won't buy us
> much, right?

If you are using Kerberos-based auth and you've already completed
authentication on that connection, you likely won't need to re-auth if
you reuse the TCP connection via Serf or Neon. (All hail stupid
authentication systems like Kerberos which are connection-oriented.
Not.) -- justin
Received on 2010-02-16 08:11:17 CET