On 2016-01-05 20:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 07:53 pm, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > Why would someone want to make 400 HTTP requests in a short time? > > For the same reason they want to make 400 HTTP requests over a long > time, except that they're in a hurry. > > Maybe they're stress-testing a web server, or they just want to > download things in a rush.
Maybe they just want to generate lots of errors. It's generally more productive to make lots of 200 HTTP requests[*]. ;-) -tkc [*] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list