[racket-users] make-http-connection and connection reuse

[Alex Harsányi]

The documentation for make-http-connection indicates that the same 
connection can be reused repeatedly, unfortunately, this does not seem to 
work.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/net/url.html?q=make-http-connection#%28def._%28%28lib._net%2Furl..rkt%29._make-http-connection%29%29

Here is an example program:

#lang racket
(require net/url net/url-connect net/head)

(define (tile->osm-url zoom x y)
  (string->url (format "https://tile.openstreetmap.org/~a/~a/~a.png"; zoom x 
y)))

(define user-agent "racket")

(define (run-test download-count)
  (parameterize ((current-https-protocol 'secure))
    (let ((connection (make-http-connection)))
      (for ([try (in-range 1 download-count)])

        (printf "download ~a..." url)(flush-output)
        (define-values (port headers)
          (get-pure-port/headers
           (tile->osm-url 14 try 1)
           (list user-agent)
           #:connection connection))

        (define content-type (extract-field "Content-Type" headers))
        (define data (port->bytes port))
        (unless (equal? content-type "image/png")
          (printf "expected a PNG image~%"))
        (printf " done.~%")(flush-output)
        ;; discard the data and start a new loop
        )
      (http-connection-close connection))))

(run-test 1000)

If you run the above program and monitor the racket process (I used 
procexp.exe on Windows, but you can use lsof on Linux), you'll notice that 
each request creates a separate socket connection, rather than reusing it, 
and these connections hang around for a long time before being closed.

Is this a bug in make-http-connection and/or get-pure-port/headers, or am I 
using it incorrectly in the example above?

This was noticed by someone on my map-widget package, and switching to 
`http-easy` solved the immediate problem (thanks Bogdan for that package!), 
but I thought I will ask here anyway, in case this is a bug.

Thanks,
Alex.


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