How do I get WinInet to reuse socket connections for HEAD requests

[William]

I am seeing that my application which uses asynchronous WinInet calls reuses
the socket connections for GET requests, but not for HEAD requests. Both the
request and response have Connection: keep-alive headers, but WinInet makes a
new connection for each HEAD request.
(I see this with both IE6 and IE7 versions of WinInet. And the packet
traces show that the client is sending the TCP FIN.)

[Vladimir Scherbina [MVP]]

Nope. Wininet hides the implementation details, there is no documented way
to accomplish this.
--
Vladimir, Windows SDK MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/v_scherbina/

Post by William
I am seeing that my application which uses asynchronous WinInet calls reuses
the socket connections for GET requests, but not for HEAD requests. Both the
request and response have Connection: keep-alive headers, but WinInet makes a
new connection for each HEAD request.
(I see this with both IE6 and IE7 versions of WinInet. And the packet
traces show that the client is sending the TCP FIN.)

[William]

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[Vladimir Scherbina [MVP]]

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