On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Igor Gatis wrote:
How long does CURL keep connections open for?
There's no time limit at all currently. That's however something we'd like to add, as mentioned in the TODO: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/todo.html#Timeout_idle_connections_from_th
In practice, servers rarely keep their end of connections alive for much more than a few minutes with no traffic and also for most use cases the likeliness that a connection will get reused is drastically reduced already after a few minutes.
Is there a way to tell CURL to close connections once they get idle for a given period of time?
Nope. Idle connections remain in the connection cache until 1 - the connection is reused 2 - the connection is killed because the cache needs the space 3 - the cache is shut down and killed -- / daniel.haxx.se ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
