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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 13 |
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diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index c2220b1bf..2f95c1e52 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -340,13 +340,12 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; <para>The option <literal>timeout</literal> sets the timeout timer used by the method, this applies to all things including connection timeout and data timeout.</para> - <para>One setting is provided to control the pipeline depth in cases where the - remote server is not RFC conforming or buggy (such as Squid 2.0.2). - <literal>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth</literal> can be a value from 0 to 5 - indicating how many outstanding requests APT should send. A value of - zero MUST be specified if the remote host does not properly linger - on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur. Hosts which - require this are in violation of RFC 2068.</para> + <para>The setting <literal>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth</literal> can be used to + enabled HTTP pipeling (RFC 2616 section 8.1.2.2) which can be beneficial e.g. on + high-latency connections. It specifies how many requests are send in a pipeline. + Previous APT versions had a default of 10 for this setting, but the default value + is now 0 (= disabled) to avoid problems with the ever-growing amount of webservers + and proxies which choose to not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification.</para> <para>The used bandwidth can be limited with <literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal> which accepts integer values in kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates |