On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Ranjan Khanna wrote:

> I have an application which makes HTTP requests. I need to make a pool of
> connections so that multiple threads can send different HTTP requests at
> same time(dont want to opening a new connection on each request, rather will
> maintain a pool of persistent connections).
>
> Is there any pooling mechanism provided by libcurl to support this or I have
> to do it as part of my application.

libcurl features a connection pool, but only for keeping connections around
after use so they can be used again. There's no way for a user to pre-populate
the pool with connections.

The chapter in the book on connection reuse:

   https://ec.haxx.se/libcurl-connectionreuse.html
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Received on 2016-10-08