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#### 1.4.1 Persistent connections

Later HTTP versions allow the transfer of multiple entities on a single connection. A connection that carries multiple entities is said to be persistent (or sometimes keep-alive). Unfortunately, persistent connections are an optional feature of HTTP, even in version 1.1.

Polipo will attempt to use persistent connections on the server side, and will honour persistent connection requests from clients.