I'd need to hear some expert opinion, please...
As client, I'm downloading three specific web pages. The process requires
exchanging cookies with the server.
The first page is ~400KB. The other two are ~2MB each.
I wrote two programs in C/C++:
One is based on curl_easy and it downloads the three pages one after the other,
sequentially. Overall it takes ~15sec.
The other is based on curl_multi and it uses the multi-app.c as framework.
Basically, it adds three curl_easy handles together into a multi_handle. The
download takes ~130sec, nearly 9 times slower.
I wrote the second with the hope to obtain a shorter downloading time.
QUESTION: is such a difference in downloading time between a "sequential"
curl_easy and the equivalent curl_multi expected?
I'm looking forward to receiving comments/feedback. Thanks!
And... please note that I know little/nothing about networking. It just happens
that I've to download web pages from a commercial server.
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