The trick is that you need to subscribe to the server’s connection event which gives you the socket of the new connection. You need to remember this socket and later on, directly after having called server.close(), destroy that socket using socket.destroy(). Additionally, you need to listen to the socket’s close event to remove it from … Read more
cURL PHP documentation (curl_setopt) says: CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE – TRUE to force the connection to explicitly close when it has finished processing, and not be pooled for reuse. So: Yes, actually it should re-use connections by default, as long as you re-use the cURL handle. by default, cURL handles persistent connections by itself; should you need some … Read more
Use the urlgrabber library. This includes an HTTP handler for urllib2 that supports HTTP 1.1 and keepalive: >>> import urllib2 >>> from urlgrabber.keepalive import HTTPHandler >>> keepalive_handler = HTTPHandler() >>> opener = urllib2.build_opener(keepalive_handler) >>> urllib2.install_opener(opener) >>> >>> fo = urllib2.urlopen(‘http://www.python.org’) Note: you should use urlgrabber version 3.9.0 or earlier, as the keepalive module has been … Read more
Does a TCP socket connection have a “keep alive”? The short answer is yes there is a timeout enforced via TCP Keep-Alive, so no the socket won’t remain open forever but will probably time out after a few hours. If you would like to configure the Keep-Alive timeout on your machine, see the “Changing TCP … Read more