Tanmay Mohapatra

Mechanism to gracefully interrupt an ongoing `Downloads.request`

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We often have APIs that stream results over a period of time. What would be a reliable way to interrupt such an ongoing `Downloads.request`? From what I gather, interrupting the...

Discovered this while investigating instances of our application getting into occasional frozen states. It seems that if the connection closes just when the `socket_callback` method starts and creates a `FDWatcher`,...

chore: concurrency tests for post with threads

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Updated concurrency tests to do post requests too, and use `@spawn` along with `@async`.

Doc section for Pkg and Storage Protocols

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This adds a section in the docs with the Package and Storage protocols. A collation of these: 1. Pkg & Storage Protocols [https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1377](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1377) 2. Authenticated Pkg Client Support: [https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/1538](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/1538) 3....

Can be seen in https://github.com/JuliaLang/Downloads.jl/pull/262. Concurrent post requests reliably lock up something, which results in the operation erroring out with "Operation too slow.".