Does net/http have connection pool?

[Boris Solovyov]

Hi,

Does net/http package pool and reuse connections? In my clients, I see the program hold http connections open to a server even when I have called Response.Body.Close(). If there is no pool (I cannot find one) then maybe I have a bug and I am not closing all.

[Feng Shen]

Yes, net/http has pooling:

http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/net/http/transport.go#520

[Patrick Mylund Nielsen]

It does indeed. See http.Transport and its methods: http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Transport

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Boris Solovyov <boris.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Does net/http package pool and reuse connections? In my clients, I see the program hold http connections open to a server even when I have called Response.Body.Close(). If there is no pool (I cannot find one) then maybe I have a bug and I am not closing all.

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[Boris Solovyov]

Thanks! This seems like major feature of net/http that users should know about, but is buried in obscure docs, "Transport can also cache connections for future re-use." Can package maintainers add short sentence like that to main net/http docs please?