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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.




  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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