No your code does not use a persistant connection (most http requests aren't). You would have to set keep_alive => 1 in your LWP::UserAgent call. But that won't work if the server is not setup to handle Keep-Alives.

But that shouldn't matter, the server connection should be sitting in TIME_WAIT (I've recieved the close and just making sure there are not packets floating around) not CLOSE_WAIT (waiting for client to close the connection).

My version of LWP dutifully closes the connection running your first example and my server's ports sit in TIME_WAIT for a couple of minutes. Check that you are running a current version of LWP. I would also run tcpdump and check your FIN and ACK responses.

UPDATE:
Here is a nice explaination of TIME_WAIT and CLOSE_WAIT.



grep
One dead unjugged rabbit fish later

In reply to Re: Closing the connection by grep
in thread Closing the connection by Anonymous Monk

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