On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Praveen Pvs wrote:
>
> We wanted to use Keep Alove Options in CURL so that it keeps the
>> connection with the server open and avoid performing SSL handshake too
>> often since SSL handshake is consuming time
>>
>
> As Ray indicated: the only way to really make servers keep connections
> alive is to *use* that connection for a request. Setting keep-alive timers
> won't help you with that, the servers will kill idle connections after a
> timeout independendent of TCP keepalive options.
>
> I am under the impression that keep alive feature will maintain that
connection by sending keep alive probes at regular intervals. Is it not the
case?. I am using the same curl handle which was created for the first
connection without cleaning it

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