Re: [hybi] Encourage disabling Nagle in the standard text?

Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Wed, 19 April 2017 05:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Encourage disabling Nagle in the standard text?
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On April 19, 2017 12:09:35 PM GMT+08:00, Jacob Champion <champion.p@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 04/18/2017 07:57 PM, Andy Green wrote:
>> libwebsockets always disables Nagle...
>
>mod_websocket does too, simply because httpd disables it for all
>connections.
>
>> AFAIK there is no value to it for general ws use. But I dunno it
>> needs the standard changing, if things have higher than expected
>> latencies people will probably work it out for themselves.
>
>Yeah. Seems like it would be subprotocol-specific... if I write a
>Telnet
>clone over WebSocket, suddenly Nagle might make a lot of sense. But I'd
>have to make sure to TCP_CORK my control frames so that they got
>flushed
>through.

By coincidence in the last 3 weeks I have written both a telnet and an ssh server on top of libwebsockets (that runs on ESP32 via WLAN)... both work nicely without any special socket treatment and without nagle.

I think nagle can be helpful only under specific conditions, and over the years those conditions have become less of the norm.

-Andy

>
>See also
>https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg06895.html .
>
>--Jacob
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