RE: how to keep connection open after receiving the last response?

On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, [email protected] wrote:

>> What exactly what that be useful for except for your quite particular niche 
>> use case?
>
> I agree it's a niche use case and if the point of curl is to transfer file 
> (as opposed to troubleshoot HTTP services; although that's mostly what I use 
> it for), it might not be a suitable feature.

I would propose you do it like this, which uses already existing 
functionality:

  $ curl URL1 URL2 URL1

... and you have the server side delay the URL2 response a suitable time. If 
the server kept the connection to the first URL1 alive, the second URL1 
transfer will reuse the connection fine. If it didn't, the second URL1 will 
create a new connection.

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