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Re: Too many connections in TIME_WAIT state

From: Vipin P R via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:54:40 +0530

Thank you. I found out that Apache Bench uses HTTP1.0 which doesn't use
connection persistence. Hence no TIME_WAIT connections. Thus the server
sends the FIN. In case of Libcurl and curl, we use HTTP1.1 where we use
KEEPALIVES.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:48 PM Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Vipin P R wrote:
>
> > I have tried with curl to the same URL. I can see that the client is
> the
> > one initiating the FIN. In case of AB, the client always waits for the
> > server to initiate the FIN. Is there any way to change this behaviour in
> > libcurl or setsockopt().
>
> It depends entirely on why curl decides to close the connection.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>

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