Hi,

As I've understood, if the site has only lets say - 5-10-20 front end files (css, js, couple of images) the overhead of this module will negate possible benefit, right?

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mikeytown2 commented

Depends on what you do with HTTPRL. How do you think it relates to the front end (do I need to change the module description)? HTTPRL is a library module, out of the box it just sits there and does a whole lot of nothing.

From my understanding HTTPRL is useful for 3 things.

  1. Issuing a lot of HTTP requests in parallel.
  2. Running a function in an independent thread/process; similar to forking the process, but in this case it's a new and independent process.
  3. Multi-threading. Take a long process and split it up, have each thread work on a portion of that split up job.

Examples #1 & #2 can be found in #380052: Add support with non-blocking parallel link checking
An Example of #3 can be found in http://groups.drupal.org/node/226054

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playfulwolf commented

Thank you, I understand all of these concepts, but my questions are more down to earth:

If I install this module (ok, it is nginx on BOA Aegir), will it do something _out of the box_? Or it is just a library, used by some of the other module developer and I need to install it _just_ when some other module recommends/requires it?

It is NOT and end user-administrator general purpose performance module, right? If it is so, do you have a list of modules which use this module?

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mikeytown2 commented

This is just a library. The only thing this will do is if you go to admin/reports/status it will test to make sure that it can make a non-blocking HTTP connection to its self. It will do nothing else out of the box. You only need to install it if another module recommends/requires it.

List of modules using HTTPRL:
Boost's Crawler 7.x
Imageinfo Cache
SMTP Authentication for Users

Will be using it in the future:
Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation 7.x version (HTTPRL is actually based off of code inside this module).
Link checker

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playfulwolf commented
Component: Miscellaneous » Documentation

Thank you. Probably I have to read project description more carefully, sorry for your wasted time.

Also - it would be a good idea put text This is a helper library. Install it only if other module recomends or requires it also list those modules in the front page or on these project pages list httprl capabilities or both :)

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hass commented
Status: Active » Fixed
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mikeytown2 commented

I've added boost to the front page; the other 2 modules were already listed. Also added "Install it only if other modules recommend or require it" to the first paragraph.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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