> 1. Use HTTP pipelining. HTTP 1.1 allows sending multiple requests > before reading the responses. I don't know if the Python httplib > supports pipelining. keepalive is already implemented in urlgrabber. > 2. Put the headers in an archive. The initial fetch of a repository > would download the archive if present and unpack it. Later updates > would fetch the individual headers. the headers are going away in the next major version or so, so this is sorta moot point. -sv
