Re: keep-alive for a while even if server don't specify

> How long does polipo keep-a-live a connection if the server doesn't give the
> keep-alive directive?

See Section 3.6 of the manual.

> I ask this because I run into some streaming sites that need 4 http
> requests in the same connection to get the stream to start.  None of the
> server reply to the first three request indicate keep-alive. The polipo
> send the first three in one connection, but the forth starts in a new
> connection.

What you're seeing are two mechanisms:

1. For the first two or three requests (depending on whether the server is
   already known to support HTTP/1.1), Polipo uses a single connection in
   order to probe for pipelining support.

2. After the pipelining probe has completed, Polipo starts load-balancing
   over serverSlots or serverSlots1 or serverMaxSlots connections
   (depending on what it found out about the server).

So apparently what you dislike is the load-balancing behaviour.  The only
way to disable this is to run Polipo with serverMaxSlots set to 1, but
beware -- this is definitely ungood for performance.

                                        Juliusz

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