Hold HTTP Connections Open?

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

Hi Monks,

I need to write a couple of perl scritps to do some stress-testing on some new network equipment. One of the requirements is that I need to make a few dozen http connections to a webserver (which is easy using LWP::UserAgent) and hold them open (which I have no idea how to do). Can anyone offer suggestions on how I can hold HTTP connections open?

Many thanks!

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Re: Hold HTTP Connections Open? by liz (Monsignor) on Nov 17, 2003 at 13:59 UTC
Look for "keep_alive" in the LWP::UserAgent documentation. Of course, this will only work if the webserver in question supports Keep-Alive headers. Liz	[reply]
Re: Hold HTTP Connections Open? by edan (Curate) on Nov 17, 2003 at 13:58 UTC
Add a `keep_alive` argument to your `LWP::UserAgent->new` call. -- 3dan	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Hold HTTP Connections Open? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2003 at 14:04 UTC
I should also mention, I'm supposed to grab each file twice--once using HTTP/1.0 and once using HTTP/1.1.	[reply]
Re: Re: Hold HTTP Connections Open? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2003 at 21:55 UTC
I should also mention, I'm supposed to grab each file twice--once using HTTP/1.0 and once using HTTP/1.1. keep_alive is a feature of HTTP/1.1. If you're going to be programming with HTTP, you need to know what it is and how it works. LWP::Protocol::http10	[reply]