Comments on: Updated curb multi interface patch

By: Typhoeus: A High Speed, Parallel HTTP Library for Ruby « A little story

Typhoeus: A High Speed, Parallel HTTP Library for Ruby « A little story — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:59:30 +0000

[...] Update:I should have mentioned that some bits of C were pulled from Todd Fisher’s update to curb for the multi interface. The easy code is completely different and some of the C stuff in Multi has changed. However, a [...]

By: taf2

taf2 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:29:38 +0000

Ja,
Yes.

  c = Curl::Easy.new("http://my.rails.box/files/upload")
  c.multipart_form_post = true
  c.http_post(Curl::PostField.file('myfile.rb'))

Also, see: http://curb.rubyforge.org/

By: Ja

Ja — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:17:25 +0000

Can Curl::Easy create POST requests?

By: taf2

taf2 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:23:34 +0000

Oddly Zen,
Yes, the libcurl multi interface processes a regular easy handle. So, all the things you can do with a Curl::Easy handle you can do through a Curl::Multi handle.

-Todd

By: Oddly Zen

Oddly Zen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:10:00 +0000

will this also handle uploading files with http_post… i’ve noticed that when uploading a big file, our app chokes — and waits til the file is done uploading before resuming the processes after the post. just wondering if this will allow for a little more asynchronicity in that operation. thanks!

By: taf2

taf2 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:03:00 +0000

I have not, I’ll work on a benchmark to compare the two.

By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:57:00 +0000

Todd, great patch. Out of curiosity, did you benchmark your new code against the curl-multi gem?