[Python-ideas] TCP Fast Open protocol

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 11.01.2013 21:03, Yuriy Taraday wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:02 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> That said, it may be useful to have a PyPI package which implements
>> the FastOpen protocol in a separate socket implementation (which can
>> then monkey itself into the stdlib, if the application developer
>> wants this).
>>
> 
> TCP Fast Open should be supported in client code directly, it's not enough
> to have socket() supporting it. It's not up to socket() implementation.

Right, the new methods would have to be used by the application.

> Server-side is pretty simple, so to say "Python supports TCP_FASTOPEN"
> there should be support implemented for each (or most) client libraries in
> stdlib, such as almost every module in
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/internet.html
> 
> Monkey-patching all these modules (or their connect() parts) is not very
> clean way, I think.

Of course not, but it's viable way to test drive such an implementation
before putting the code directly into the stdlib modules.

gevent uses the same approach, BTW.

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