In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: > Of course, if the client forces the TCP PSH flag true then the receiver > is guaranteed to debuffer the stream up to that point - this is how FTP > clients work, for example.
I don't think that's right. You are confusing the PSH flag (which is basically unused in Unix networking I think) and the URG flag (which is extremely rarely used, but is indeed used by FTP to get abort requests to 'jump the queue' as it were). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list