On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:45:04 +0200
Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> Thoughts?
How verboten would it be to create an empty external pointer object,
add it to the preserved list, and set an on-exit finalizer to clean up
the curl multi-handle? As far as I can tell, the internet module is not
supposed to be
I'd like to raise this again now that 4.4 is out.
Below is a more complete patch which includes a function to properly
cleanup libcurl when R quits. Implementing this is a little tricky
because libcurl is a separate "module" in R, perhaps there is a better
way, but this works:
view:
Currently download.file() creates and terminates a new TLS connection
for each download. This creates a lot of overhead which is expensive
for both client and server (in particular the TLS handshake). Modern
internet clients (including browsers) re-use connections for many http
requests.
We can
