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Daniel Stenberg 4732ca5724 CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY: now enabled by default
After a few wasted hours hunting down the reason for slowness during a
TLS handshake that turned out to be because of TCP_NODELAY not being
set, I think we have enough motivation to toggle the default for this
option. We now enable TCP_NODELAY by default and allow applications to
switch it off.

This also makes --tcp-nodelay unnecessary, but --no-tcp-nodelay can be
used to disable it.

Thanks-to: Tim Rühsen
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-06/0143.html
2016-08-05 00:12:57 +02:00

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.TH CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY 3 "30 Jun 2016" "libcurl 7.50.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY \- set the TCP_NODELAY option
.SH SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY, long nodelay);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pass a long specifying whether the TCP_NODELAY option is to be set or cleared
(1 = set, 0 = clear). The option is set by default. This will have no effect
after the connection has been established.
Setting this option will disable TCP's Nagle algorithm. The purpose of this
algorithm is to try to minimize the number of small packets on the network
(where "small packets" means TCP segments less than the Maximum Segment Size
(MSS) for the network).
Maximizing the amount of data sent per TCP segment is good because it
amortizes the overhead of the send. However, in some cases small segments may
need to be sent without delay. This is less efficient than sending larger
amounts of data at a time, and can contribute to congestion on the network if
overdone.
.SH DEFAULT
1
.SH PROTOCOLS
All
.SH EXAMPLE
TODO
.SH AVAILABILITY
Always. The default was changed to 1 from 0 in 7.50.2.
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION "(3), " CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE "(3), "