AFAIK, persistent HTTP connections are the default in HTTP/1.1 and not in earlier versions of the protocol. You may want to change to "GET / HTTP/1.1" OR continue to use HTTP/1.0 and add the "Connection: Keep-AliveKeep-Alive: 300" headers and hope that the
HTTP server supports keep alive. Further, the end of a persistent connection in HTTP/1.1 is signaled by the "Connection: close" header, ...