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>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> So I'm going to rewrite this by adding a new library, called, er,
> url-queue.el, which has the same interface as `url-retrieve', but which
> manages the parallelism in a more sensible way, by not having more than
> (for instance) four connections going at the same time.

If they are all GETs against the same server, the nicest way for a
client to behave is to just keep the TCP connection up HTTP/1.1 style
and just fire off the GETs pipelined.