Hi Jerome,

> Hi Sean,
> 
> I would have expected the other behavior as the JDK keeps HTTP connections
> alive by default. There is a system property to change this behavior, you
> may want to play with it and see what happen: "http.keepAlive (default:
> true)"
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/net/properties.html
> 
> In this other document they have an interesting paragraph:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/net/http-keepalive.html

Thanks, I will check these out.

> "What makes a connection reusable? ...

This sounds like voodoo :-( I don't want to have to step all the way down to
socket level or some such. 

> 
> So, you may want to ensure that all your request entities (representations)
> have their "size" property precisely set. Also, feel free to have a look at
> the implementation classes (just two) to see if our usage of
> HttpURLConnection could be improved.

So if I can stay within the confines of the Restlet world and still get
connection reuse, that would be great. I'll play with it and report back
what I find.

Regards,
Sean

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