@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ class Config(object):

     # s3 will timeout if a request/transfer is stuck for more than a short time

     throttle_max = 100

     public_url_use_https = False

+    connection_pooling = True

     ## Creating a singleton

     def __new__(self, configfile = None, access_key=None, secret_key=None, access_token=None):

@@ -268,6 +268,12 @@ class ConnMan(object):

             debug("ConnMan.put(): closing over-used connection")

             return

+        cfg = Config()

+        if not cfg.connection_pooling:

+            ConnMan.close(conn)

+            debug("ConnMan.put(): closing connection (connection pooling disabled)")

+            return

+

         ConnMan.conn_pool_sem.acquire()

         ConnMan.conn_pool[conn.id].append(conn)

         ConnMan.conn_pool_sem.release()

@@ -2761,6 +2761,7 @@ def main():

     optparser.add_option(      "--no-check-hostname", dest="check_ssl_hostname", action="store_false", help="Do not check SSL certificate hostname validity")

     optparser.add_option(      "--signature-v2", dest="signature_v2", action="store_true", help="Use AWS Signature version 2 instead of newer signature methods. Helpful for S3-like systems that don't have AWS Signature v4 yet.")

     optparser.add_option(      "--limit-rate", dest="limitrate", action="store", type="string", help="Limit the upload or download speed to amount bytes per second.  Amount may be expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the k suffix, or megabytes with the m suffix")

+    optparser.add_option(      "--no-connection-pooling", dest="connection_pooling", action="store_false", help="Disable connection re-use")

     optparser.add_option(      "--requester-pays", dest="requester_pays", action="store_true", help="Set the REQUESTER PAYS flag for operations")

     optparser.add_option("-l", "--long-listing", dest="long_listing", action="store_true", help="Produce long listing [ls]")

     optparser.add_option(      "--stop-on-error", dest="stop_on_error", action="store_true", help="stop if error in transfer")