1) Why download a file over multiple file handles?

Well, I'm using debian linux here, and it comes with this 'lftp' program. 'lftp' has this command, 'pget', that makes multiple connections to download the file, and it seems to speed up the transfer.. It's very userful, but it doesn't support HTTP..

If you read from a file descriptor with <$fh>, perl does a 'blocking read'. This means the process will sleep until data arrives on that connection.

That could be a problem.. Do you know where I can find an example of select(), or something like that? (I;m seeing the man page, I don't understand it.. :-)

In reply to RE: RE: I need an array of filehandles. by Anonymous Monk
in thread I need an array of filehandles. by Punto

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