dakrone/clj-http — Issue #29: Large downloads are extremely slow
Author: kokaku
Created: 2011-12-21 13:48:47+00:00
State: open

Using the clojure download (4.3MB)
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/clojure/clojure/1.3.0/clojure-1.3.0.zip

In a browser, the download takes about 5s
In a REPL with clj-http.client/get, the download takes nearly 10 minutes

Similar behavior observed for a 1MB download (2sec v 2.5min)

This limits the usefulness of clj-http for working with big gets in a program.