bpo-39128: happy eyeballs description by idomic · Pull Request #18523 · python/cpython

Expand Up @@ -451,6 +451,17 @@ 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. Expand Down