HTTP persistent connection solutions

skazat has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

A strangely easy question today. I'm looking for a HTTP persistent connection solution (hopefully fairly high level) in Perl. My Google and search.cpan.org - fu has failed me, only finding that LWP currently (perhaps?) may not support this. Although I may be mistaken. As is not at all unusual. All the related questions on the 'monks are woefully out of date.

Looking to use HTTP keep-alive for some Amazon AWS stuff.

-skazat

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Re: HTTP persistent connection solutions by Anonymous Monk on Oct 31, 2011 at 23:01 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/grep?cpanid=GAAS&release=libwww-perl-6.03&string=alive&i=1&n=1&C=0 `LWP::UserAgent->new( keep_alive => 1 )`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: HTTP persistent connection solutions by skazat (Chaplain) on Nov 01, 2011 at 00:26 UTC
Thanks. I didn't know to look for the "grep" tool. So the only place that's documented is, http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-6.03/lwptut.pod Eek. -skazat	[reply]
Re^3: HTTP persistent connection solutions by Anonymous Monk on Nov 01, 2011 at 01:23 UTC
And LWP::UserAgent	[reply]
Re: HTTP persistent connection solutions by Sewi (Friar) on Nov 01, 2011 at 09:21 UTC
HTTP is a request-based protocol, there are no "persistant connections" like they are on SQL, SMTP or FTP (where one connection may handle more than one action). The HTTP Keep-Alive is some kind of persistant connection, but it's limited in various ways. A client may request Keep-Alive, but neither a intermediate proxy nor the server has to respect this request Servers usually close Keep-Alive connections very quickly (few seconds), because they're blocking valueable server slots. LWP's Keep-Alive should do the job, but there are other participants who might not support or like it. Try Padre - the free Perl IDE	[reply]


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