[asterisk-dev] question about asterisk 1.4, func_curl.c, and close_wait state

[Paul Albrecht]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 13:32 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2011 13:26:35 you wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 13:11 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 February 2011 11:08:38 Paul Albrecht wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Why does the curl function leave the request connection in the
> > > > close_wait state until the channel thread terminates?
> > > 
> > > That's a question for the libcurl authors, as we use that library for
> > > the main functionality.
> > 
> > Think the curl library default is keepalive and that's a bad thing
> > because the socket file descriptor doesn't go away until the channel
> > thread terminates. So my question really is does it make sense for
> > asterisk to use the library default?
> 
> We accept patches.  :-)
> 

I "fixed" the problem by hacking the function to call the curl library
initialization and cleanup routines each time it's invoked which works
for me because there's only one curl request per caller in my
application.

Not sure that's the optimal solution for other applications, but I doubt
the extra library calls makes much difference for most applications.

-- 
Paul Albrecht