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Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections?

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Date 2013-11-09 08:29 +1100
Subject Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> or are your connections blocking for lack of entropy?
>
> Nope. The cyrpto libraries we're using don't do that.  I'm not
> entirely happy with the entropy generation used.  I wish I had more
> sources of "real" randomness, but at least they don't block.
>
>> You might be able to add another source of random bits, or possibly
>> reduce security a bit by allowing less-secure randomness from
>> /dev/urandom.
>
> It's not Unix-like OS, but that's more or less what's happening.

And pop goes another theory. I knew you'd know what I mean by
/dev/urandom, regardless of the name you'd actually reference it by.
Oh well, worth a shot.

ChrisA

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OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 17:25 +0000
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? donarb <donarb@nwlink.com> - 2013-11-08 09:39 -0800
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-11-08 11:39 -0600
    Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 18:01 +0000
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 05:16 +1100
    Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 19:20 +0000
      Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 06:39 +1100
        Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 20:48 +0000
          Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:01 +1100
            Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 21:14 +0000
              Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:29 +1100
  RE: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Nick Cash <nick.cash@npcinternational.com> - 2013-11-08 19:42 +0000
    Re: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 21:02 +0000
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-11-08 13:13 -0700
    Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 21:05 +0000

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