> > Can a connection be kept alive without a valid session?
>
> Yes, connections are kept alive separate from the easy handle. Which itself
> leads to another nit of mine as it seems SMB doesn't do persistant
> connections? If you get the same file twice in the same curl command line,
> are they done over the same TCP connection?

It should be persistent. I believe I tested this.

> > Also, will BUFSIZE always be <= 64K?
>
> Well, we could have a check that made sure we never used more than 64K if
> it would be larger, but it is 16K now (since forever) and it seems unlikely that
> we would make it larger by default any time soon. I do suspect that we at
> some point in the future will make it allocated on demand and then it could
> probably become larger than 16K when deemed clever (SFTP for example
> would benefit a lot from something like that).

I think I will make two changes:
1. use the session buffers
2. split downloading into two states so that I can still request 64K even if the buffer is 16K.

-Bill

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