On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Zibiao.Wei_at_atxinc.com wrote:

> I am surprised to see the easy handle keeps previous connections alive
> instead of only the latest one. Does it hold all connection history or
> only a limit number?

This "connection cache" is documented on numerous places. libcurl keeps N
connections alive for re-use purposes. You control the N amount with
CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, it defaults to 5.

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