HTTP persistent connection, also called HTTP keep-alive, or HTTP connection reuse, is the idea of using a single TCP connection to send and receive multiple HTTP requests/responses, as opposed to opening a new connection for every single request/response pair. This can improve crawl performance but can sometimes cause requests to fail with a protocol violation error.

To disable keep-alive

  1. From the Project Properties dialogue, select the Advanced category
  2. Uncheck the Keep alive option

It is not recommended this option unless you are having specific problems with a given website.

See Also

Configuring the Crawler

Working with local files

Controlling the crawl

JavaScript

Security

Modifying URLs

Advanced

Deprecated features

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