From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2012-03-27T07:19:01+09:00
Subject: [ANN] net-http-persistent 2.6 Released

* http://docs.seattlerb.org/net-http-persistent
* https://github.com/drbrain/net-http-persistent

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