On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Gil Weber wrote:

>> No, that's completely unrelated and is fully expected. libcurl caches
>> connections to allow you to re-use them again without having to reconnect.
>>
> OK my mistake I didn't know that. But knowing that, is there a way to force
> connection to be closed ?

Not after the actual transfer is done, no. You can set the options before you
do the transfer.

> I have checked the available options and I see "CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE" but
> this is only usable to close the connection after the next transfer. But
> what can I do if I have no more transfer to do ? Is there a way to do this ?
> or a "CURLOPT_DISCONNECT_ONLY" option ?

No there isn't.

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