question on the inner workings of ktor: if you mak...

# ktor

[Nick Williams]

question on the inner workings of ktor: if you make a request and then another identical request whilst the first one is still awaiting a response does the second request also await the outcome of the first request or does it generate another network round trip?

[Dariusz Kuc]

I'd imagine that by default those would be treated as two separate requests. I'm guessing you would need some sort of caching mechanism in the pipeline to only make single request.

[Nick Williams]

By caching mechanism do you mean just adding the HttpCache plugin?

[Dariusz Kuc]

unsure what that plugin does, guessing no but check docs

[Nick Williams]

Nothing in docs

[Dariusz Kuc]

so probably not

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

If an endpoint allows caching its responses then you can use the HttpCache plugin to cache a response from the first request and have it for the second one without making a network call. However, this depends on when the second request is fired.