Facebook graph api and keep alive connections

Question

We want to reduce the https connect latency to facebook graph servers. We have configured our servers to do a http keep alive. However, it looks like the connection gets closed after every call (from traffic server logs...).

Is there a way to deterministically see that keep_alive connections are honored or not by graph.facebook.com? ..or for that matter any server in general?

Answer 1

Based on Facebook's attitude towards efficient queries, I would not expect them to honor any type of persistent connection. Especially since your request is going to end up in a performance hit on their servers.

You should look at fetching as much data as you can in one go by combining your queries into a single batch request.