Have you tried using the inactivity_timeout option?

no I haven't where and how should I set this option?

It was supposed to be used like this.

ibrowse:send_req(Host, Port, Method, Headers, [{inactivity_timeout, 5000} | Other_options]).

But it only works if a request is in progress. But that is a bit silly, it should work even if all requests on that connection are done and the connection is idle. I'll make a patch and let you know. Thanks for reporting it.

Here is a patch against ibrowse-2.0.1

The connection will close after 10 seconds of inactivity on the connection. You can control this timeout value by the ibrowse application variable inactivity_timeout (either set in ibrowse.app or your sys.config file)

http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=emBiTfcZ

The updated patch at the link below supports specifying this config in ibrowse.conf as well.

http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=cNe10QEj

I'll give it a try. thanks

I applyed your patch but I get this error:

** When Server state == undefined
** Reason for termination == 
** {function_clause,[{ibrowse_http_client,do_close,[undefined]},
                 {ibrowse_http_client,terminate,2},
                 {gen_server,terminate,6},
                 {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}

looks like the state is being set to undefined somewhere.

I added this two lines to the set_inac_timer/2 to solve the problem:

+set_inac_timer(State, infinity) ->
+    State;

After some debugging I noticed that get_inac_timeout/1 was returning infinity and that would cause set_inac_timer/2 to return 'undefined'.

let me know if this is the right way to solve the problem.
Thanks

That's great, thanks very much. I'll commit it soon...

It works thanks.