[ruby-core:24060] [Bug #1696] http downloads are unuseably slow

Issue #1696 has been updated by Steven Hartland.

File protocol.rb.patch added

Silly bug in original patch, fixed version here, results still consistent with original.

It may be interesting to note that this also brings net/http speed inline with that of libcurl ruby gems
open.core     15.296875   1.437500  16.734375 ( 22.416853)
open.patched   0.093750   0.218750   0.312500 (  0.340683)
taf2-curb      0.171875   0.273438   0.445312 (  0.546568)

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