On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, John Vorwald wrote:

> Is the procedure that I'm using secure?

I don't think anyone can say that with a huge degree of confident, but sure
the HTTPS with a verified server certificate should make it fairly sure that
you're doing encrypted communication with the correct server.

> how do I remain connected after the first curl_easy_perform call?

In a typical situation libcurl will stay connected if it can and it it can't,
there's not much you can do about it.

> Connection: close

^^^ this is the server telling the client that it will close the connection
after the response.

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