On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Armel Asselin wrote:

> I wonder if we could have another approach. We could detect the PASV
> collision and repeat the PASV commands (it seems that IIS accepts that), it
> would cause the slow-down only in case of actual collision. I well
> understand that this is "IIS bug handling" but IIS is really spread and
> having libcurl just inverting silently the data when you try to download two
> files in parallel from an IIS server is not cool.

Since you're the first person ever to report this, I don't think this is a
common problem for libcurl users and I don't think we should bend over
backwards to support it.

If you can come up with a *nice* approach that isn't excessive for conformant
servers, then I think we can consider including it.

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