Hi,

I am writing an HTTPS client using libcurl/OpenSSL. The client is expected
to periodically connect to the server, exchange data and close the
connection i.e. not keep a persistent connection. What would be the best way
to explicitly close the underlying TCP connection from the client side
without having to close the libcurl handle? I want to keep the Libcurl
handle alive in order to leverage the SSL session cache. I currently see two
options.

a) Using undocumented function Curl_disconnect ()
b) Limit CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to 1 and use CURL_OPT_CONNECT_ONLY: To
disconnect, we can change the URL on the CURL handle and simply call call
curl_easy_perform ().

Do you think either of the above is a nice way (probably not :-) ) to do it?
Can you suggest the right way to do this?

Thanks
Ajil Koshy

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