Re: CAB-for-MiNTNet overlay 1.82

[ebertbd@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernd Ebert)]

>At the moment it's undergoing a major overhaul. I have had to completely
>redesign my URL caching scheme to accomodate authorization/authentication
>and cookie info. At the same time I'm adding the other major missing piece
>of HTTP/1.1 - reusable connections. This feature will allow multiple requests
>to go over a single TCP connection, which will boost throughput tremendously
>for pages with a lot of images loading from the same server. My tests so far
>show that the typical HTTP 1.1 server times out the connection after 10
>seconds, so this won't speed up access to a particular server if e.g. you
>get a page, spend a while viewing it, and then click on another one of its
>links. At the same time, I'm restructuring the code so that the HTTP-specific
>management is separate from the MiNTnet-specific code. This should make it
>easier for STiK/STiNG hackers to adapt my HTTP/1.1 support. (This overhaul
>was long overdue; up till now I was just poking and prodding at Dancer's
>original programming structure. It probably suited his mentality just fine,
>but it's time to really make it the way I think it should be...)

Is there any planned release date for the new ovl? Mainly I'm very interested
in authorization!

Greetings,
				Bernd