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Reuse the underlying cURL handle by default. #52
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Aside from a slightly lower overhead on the PHP side, reusing the same handle enables cURL to reuse a connection to perform different HTTP requests against the same web server (which is definitely our case).
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Reuse the underlying cURL handle by default.
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The most relevant benefit of reusing cURL handles is in that cURL can reuse already opened connections to perform different HTTP requests when issued against the same web server.
Relying on the old behaviour (a new cURL handle for each request) is still possible by doing: