Struct ConnPool 

pub struct ConnPool { /* private fields */ }

Per-backend HTTP/1.1 connection pool.

Holds idle TcpStream connections keyed by "host:port". When a backend responds with Connection: keep-alive (or the HTTP/1.1 default), the stream is returned here and reused for the next request to the same backend, eliminating the TCP-handshake cost and reducing ephemeral-port exhaustion under load.

Thread safety

All methods take &self and are safe to call from multiple threads. The inner map is protected by a Mutex.

Example

use std::sync::Arc;
use std::time::Duration;
use rust_web_server::proxy::ConnPool;
use rust_web_server::proxy::ReverseProxy;

let pool = Arc::new(ConnPool::new(16, Duration::from_secs(30)));
let _proxy = ReverseProxy::new(["http://backend:8080"])
    .with_pool(Arc::clone(&pool));

Implementations

impl ConnPool

pub fn new(max_idle: usize, idle_timeout: Duration) -> Self

Create a pool with the given per-backend idle limit and idle timeout.

pub fn new_default() -> Self

Create a pool with defaults: 8 idle connections per backend, 60-second timeout.

pub fn acquire(&self, key: &str) -> Option<TcpStream>

Try to acquire an idle connection for key = "host:port".

Stale entries (older than idle_timeout) are discarded automatically. Returns None if no usable connection is available.

pub fn release(&self, key: &str, stream: TcpStream)

Return a keep-alive connection to the pool.

If the backend slot is already at max_idle, the stream is dropped (the TCP connection closes) rather than exceeding the limit.

pub fn idle_count(&self) -> usize

Total idle connections across all backends (useful for testing/metrics).