[Xastir] Announcing tile support for OSM

[Jerry Dunmire]

Hi James,
Thanks for the explanation, it will get me started.

Have you tired other servers? It would also be informative if you
could give TangoGPS (http://www.tangogps.org/) a try and let me know
how it performs for you.

Thanks,
...jerry

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:49 PM, James Cameron <vk2lqz at wia.org.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:01:55PM -0700, Jerry Dunmire wrote:
>> Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I'm not sure how 'pipelining'
>> works, but I'll look into it.
>
> A non-pipelining HTTP fetch of a URL looks like this:
>
> 1.  open TCP connection to server on port 80,
> 2.  transmit HTTP GET request,
> 3.  read reply,
> 4.  close TCP connection.
>
> For subsequent fetch from the same server, a new connection is opened.
>
> A pipelining HTTP fetch looks like this:
>
> 1.  open TCP connection to server on port 80,
> 2.  transmit HTTP GET request,
> 3.  read reply,
> 4.  deduce from reply header that pipelining is supported,
> 5.  keep connection open for re-use,
> 6.  transmit another HTTP GET request, etc.
>
> Thanks for considering the latency challenged.  ;-)
>
> --
> James Cameron
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