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Connection pool

Also written: connection pools, connection pooling

A set of open network connections that a client keeps and reuses, so later requests skip the slow setup of a new connection.

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Async HTTP clients · Many requests at once with asyncio and httpx: limits, timeouts and retries. About 40 minutes.

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