Beginning with Chilkat v9.4.0, two new TCP socket performance properties, SoSndBuf and SoRcvBuf, will be added to each of the following Chilkat components/libs: FTP2, HTTP, SFTP, SSH, SshTunnel, IMAP, and MailMan (POP3/SMTP). These properties allow for the underlying socket’s send and receive buffer sizes to be set. These are socket options associated with the setsockopt system call (see http://linux.die.net/man/2/setsockopt ) […]
Question: I’m spidering search results and trying to archive hundreds of pages to MHT’s. I’m testing your control and found it much slower than Internet Explorer. Also, while I’m not doing this now, is this control threadsafe if I ever wanted to try that to improve performance? Answer: Internet Explorer is faster because it uses multiple threads, and because it uses […]
Question: We’re rather puzzled by what appears to be capped speeds on uploads, despite no cap being set. Testing uploads, we’re seeing about 350 KB/s via the Ck library to our (local network) FTP server. A FileZilla transfer of the same file to the same server can happily hit up to 7MB/s. I realize Ck supports bandwidth throttling, but those […]