Bug#656279: ITP: ruby-net-http-persistent -- Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>

* Package name    : ruby-net-http-persistent
  Version         : 2.3.3
  Upstream Author : © 2010 Eric Hodel
  	   	    © 2010 Aaron Patterson
* URL             : http://docs.seattlerb.org/net-http-persistent
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description     : Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP


Using persistent HTTP connections can dramatically increase the speed of HTTP.
Creating a new HTTP connection for every request involves an extra TCP
round-trip and causes TCP congestion avoidance negotiation to start over.

Net::HTTP supports persistent connections with some API methods but does not
handle reconnection gracefully.  Net::HTTP::Persistent supports reconnection
and retry according to RFC 2616.

This package is needed as a build-dependency for ruby-mechanize.