Hi Daniel,

Many thanks for your quick response.

I think you are absolutely right, TCP keep-alive is a good pointer from
you, I will find some time to test again.

Cheers
AC Pan

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, AC Pan wrote:
>
> 1. Can curl connect to a php server and have the connection stay with the
>> server until data arrive? How to do it ? i tested Curl.exe, the connection
>> does not stay. May be i am not aware of syntax used.
>>
>
> curl will do it by default, nothing extra needed. "long-polling" is just
> another word for saying "very very very slow server" and that's of course
> something curl supports. Just make sure the server keeps the connection
> alive. And you probably want to enable TCP keep-alive for the cases you go
> through NATs or firewalls etc.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>

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