From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:06:00 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bpo-39128: Added algorithm description (GH-18624) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f4cf0c22b00fefb17611546755b65d3cb488330;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-39128: Added algorithm description (GH-18624) GH- [bpo-39128](https://bugs.python.org/issue39128): happy eyeballs description GH- [3.9] 39128 - happy eyeballs description (GH-18624) GH- [3.8] 39128 - happy eyeballs description (GH-18624) https://bugs.python.org/issue39128 (cherry picked from commit 8af4712a16e4b7d1b60f1faec13cd7a88da95f6a) Co-authored-by: idomic --- diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst index 4ea8521eb0bf..9022993e619a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst @@ -439,6 +439,17 @@ Opening network connections Added the *happy_eyeballs_delay* and *interleave* parameters. + Happy Eyeballs Algorithm: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts. + When a server's IPv4 path and protocol are working, but the server's + IPv6 path and protocol are not working, a dual-stack client + application experiences significant connection delay compared to an + IPv4-only client. This is undesirable because it causes the dual- + stack client to have a worse user experience. This document + specifies requirements for algorithms that reduce this user-visible + delay and provides an algorithm. + + For more information: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555 + .. versionadded:: 3.7 The *ssl_handshake_timeout* parameter.