Hi

I've realized that dead/half-open connections (that are in the TIME_WAIT
state) in the connection cache are not cleaned up (closed) when new
requests are triggered. In fact they are only cleaned up if a new
request to the same host is conducted. I tested this with quite recent
versions >=7.36.0 and git. In an earlier versions (e.g 7.28 I know it's
ancient) all dead connections where closed upon a new request.

I've found following post
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-03/0009.html, where exactly this
feature was submitted. There the whole connection cache was searched for
dead connections before a new request was conducted. But as far as I
understand the actual code in url.c::ConnectionExists() does no longer
iterate through all connections, and so does not check for dead
connections anymore.

Is there another way to get rid of the half-open connections, or is this
a bug?

Btw: My code uses the multi interface with one easy handle that is
reused (reset) for each request. Similar to the multi-single example.

cheers Frank

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