G'Day Monks,

I'm working on a script to do some server testing. I need to go grab some webpages off of the server with LWP::UserAgent. Here's the trick though: I need to keep the HTTP connections open. So, after I fetch the page, I would like to keep the HTTP session open for some arbitrary amount of time afterward. Is this possible? The server does support KeepAlive, if that helps, but I find that doing this:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => undef);
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $res = $ua->request($req);

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simply fetches the webpage and doesn't keep the connection alive once it's done. Note that I used undef because according to CPAN documentation, that value is passed on to LWP::ConnCache as total_capacity. The LWP::ConnCache documentation says that if total_capacity is set to undef, the total capacity is unlimited.

If it's not possible to keep a connection alive after fetching a page, is it possible to simply open a connection and keep it alive (without ever fetching a page) instead?

In reply to Keeping HTTP sessions alive by Anonymous Monk

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