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Enable TCP_NODELAY for all synchronous sockets.
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The widely documented poor interaction between the Nagle algorithm and
TCP's delayed ACK feature, when making short successive writes, leads to
unnecessary delays (around 50ms on Linux). This happens in httpcore
whenever a POST request is made, since the headers and body are sent as
two separate calls.

The TCP_NODELAY option can be enabled to disable Nagle's algorithm, and
therefore avoid this delay.

The option is already enabled by default for all asyncio and Trio
sockets. It is also enabled by CPython's http.client module (which
urllib and requests use) and by many high-level HTTP libraries found in
other languages, including libcurl, Java's Netty, Rust's reqwest and
Go's standard library, to name a few.
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plietar committed Jan 12, 2023
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import errno
import socket
import ssl
import sys
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sock = socket.create_connection(
address, timeout, source_address=source_address
)

# Might fail in OSs that don't implement TCP_NODELAY
try:
sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1)
except OSError as e:
if e.errno != errno.ENOPROTOOPT:
raise

return SyncStream(sock)

def connect_unix_socket(
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