From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Asynchroneous image retrieval in HTML rendering
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 17:23:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tydewilm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ei4iihd3.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
01/05/11 17:13, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It seems likely this is a DNS problem, yes.
>>
>> Alright, I'm going to adopt gnus rule number 1 then: wait for Lars to
>> fix things :)
>
> :-)
>
> I think the fix here might be to introduce a new variable
> `url-asynchronous-dns-lookup' (or something), and then have shr bind it
> to make url.el more asynchronous. The pauses we experience today when
> trying to do asynchronous URL retrieval aren't acceptable. Especially
> if a domain is down or semi-down -- reading the articles becomes almost
> impossible.
Why is DNS even synchroneous in the first place? I'd expect
"asynchroneous" to mean that both DNS lookup and data transfer are
non-blocking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-01 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 22:18 Antoine Levitt
2011-04-28 20:03 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-29 9:04 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-29 9:18 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-29 10:01 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-29 20:34 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-01 15:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 15:23 ` Antoine Levitt [this message]
2011-05-01 15:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 16:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 16:34 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-05-01 16:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 17:15 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-02 7:52 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-02 14:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 14:53 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-02 15:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 17:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 17:24 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-02 17:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 21:52 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-04 18:40 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-05-30 20:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-05 8:25 ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-30 20:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-05 10:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-05 10:58 ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-05 11:17 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-05 13:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-05 14:01 ` David Engster
2011-05-05 14:07 ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-05 15:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-05 19:49 ` David Engster
2011-05-05 20:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-05 14:25 ` David Engster
2011-05-05 14:34 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-05 14:59 ` David Engster
2011-05-05 15:00 ` David Engster
2011-05-02 17:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 18:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 17:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-02 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 21:18 ` Steinar Bang
2011-05-02 22:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-03 14:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-03 18:48 ` Steinar Bang
2011-05-02 21:15 ` Steinar Bang
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