On 20 Apr 2013, at 22:34, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>
> The curl tool actually has no option that can forcible make a connection not being tried for re-use afterward. libcurl has, but that ability has never been exposed by the tool since we haven't had any reason to.
>
> Can you elaborate a little on why you want to do this?

I am not the OP, but I know at least one webserver (inbuilt Java one) which for a long while had a bug with reusing TCP connections, which is avoided by disabling them at the client end. So I can see it might be useful.

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Alex Bligh
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