Net-http-persistent 2.6 Released

Ruby
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Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP plus a speed fix for Ruby
1.8.
It’s thread-safe too!

Using persistent HTTP connections can dramatically increase the speed of
HTTP.
Creating a new HTTP connection for every request involves an extra TCP
round-trip and causes TCP congestion avoidance negotiation to start
over.

Net::HTTP supports persistent connections with some API methods but does
not
handle reconnection gracefully. Net::HTTP::Persistent supports
reconnection
and retry according to RFC 2616.

=== Changes:

  • Minor enhancement
    • Net::HTTP::Persistent#idle_timeout may be set to nil to disable
      expiration
      of connections. Pull Request #21 by Aaron Stone