Re: counting the number of connections?

["David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>]

Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> some time ago I noticed curl doesn't remember your credentials (apart
> from those it can get from ~/.netrc), and very recently there was an
> thread on repeated prompting for credentials while pushing to https.
>
> I've written a simple patch series, which allows git to play nice
> without curl_multi. That is, git uses a single persistent connection
> throughout.
>
> However, I'm at a loss at how to test for this. How does one count the
> number of connections made during the lifespan of a program's
> execution? So far, I've been relying on my firewall log (Comodo on
> windows). Perhaps there a more operating system/software-agnostic
> method to do this?

You could set up a single-use tcp forwarder which will make any second
connection fail. Using socat, for instance:

  $ socat tcp-listen:2222,bind=localhost tcp:my.server:22 &
  $ nc localhost 2222
  SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-3ubuntu1
  ^C
  $ nc localhost 2222
  localhost [127.0.0.1] 2222 (?) : Connection refused

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David Kågedal