Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > David Rasmussen wrote: >> I use urllib2 to do some simple HTTP communication with a web server. In >> one "session", I do maybe 10-15 requests. It seems that urllib2 opens op >> a connection every time I do a request. Can I somehow make it use _one_ >> persistent connection where I can do multiple GET->"receive data" passes >> before the connection is closed? > > Are you sure HTTP supports that? This would be news to me - which > doesn't mean much :)
It does (HTTP/1.1 at least) and it's called 'keep-alive'. > And even if it works - what is the problem with connections being created? Performance, network load... -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
