diff --git a/WikipediaBot.php b/WikipediaBot.php
index e09133adc1..f9b43f7646 100644
--- a/WikipediaBot.php
+++ b/WikipediaBot.php
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ final class WikipediaBot {
   private Consumer $user_consumer;
   private Client $user_client;
   private Token $user_token;
-  private static CurlHandle $ch; // All wikipedia connections share a session
+  private static CurlHandle $ch_login;
+  private static CurlHandle $ch_logout;
   private string $the_user = '';
   private static ?self $last_WikipediaBot; // For NonStandardMode()
 
@@ -26,8 +27,9 @@ public static function make_ch() : void {
     static $init_done = FALSE;
     if ($init_done) return;
     $init_done = TRUE;
-    self::$ch = curl_init_array(1.0,
-    [CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => TRUE ]); // This is a little paranoid - see https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_FAILONERROR.html
+    // This is a little paranoid - see https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_FAILONERROR.html
+    self::$ch_login  = curl_init_array(1.0, [CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => TRUE ]); 
+    self::$ch_logout = curl_init_array(1.0, [CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => TRUE ]);
   }
 
   function __construct() {
@@ -113,14 +115,14 @@ private function fetch(array $params, int $depth = 1) : ?object {
     $authenticationHeader = $request->toHeader();
 
 try {
-	  curl_setopt_array(self::$ch, [
+	  curl_setopt_array(self::$ch_login, [
 	    CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
 	    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($params),
 	    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [$authenticationHeader],
 	    CURLOPT_URL => API_ROOT
 	  ]);
 
-      $data = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch);
+      $data = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch_login);
       $ret = @json_decode($data);
       if (($ret === NULL) || ($ret === FALSE) || (isset($ret->error) && (   // @codeCoverageIgnoreStart
 	(string) $ret->error->code === 'assertuserfailed' ||
@@ -363,17 +365,17 @@ static private function QueryAPI(array $params) : string {
    try {
     $params['format'] = 'json';
 
-	    curl_setopt_array(self::$ch, [
+	    curl_setopt_array(self::$ch_logout, [
 		CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
 		CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($params),
 		CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [],
 		CURLOPT_URL => API_ROOT,
 	  ]);
 
-    $data = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch);
+    $data = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch_logout);
     if ($data === '') {
        sleep(4);                                // @codeCoverageIgnore
-       $data = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch);  // @codeCoverageIgnore
+       $data = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch_logout);  // @codeCoverageIgnore
     }
     return (self::ret_okay(@json_decode($data))) ? $data : '';
     // @codeCoverageIgnoreStart
@@ -401,11 +403,11 @@ static public function get_links(string $title) : string {
   }
 
   static public function GetAPage(string $title) : string {
-    curl_setopt_array(self::$ch,
+    curl_setopt_array(self::$ch_logout,
 	      [CURLOPT_HTTPGET => TRUE,
 	       CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [],
 	       CURLOPT_URL => WIKI_ROOT . '?' . http_build_query(['title' => $title, 'action' =>'raw'])]);
-    $text = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch);
+    $text = (string) @curl_exec(self::$ch_logout);
     return $text;
   }