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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_share_setopt.311
-rw-r--r--lib/url.c5
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_share_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_share_setopt.3
index 947722806..2e0e785fa 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_share_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_share_setopt.3
@@ -75,8 +75,15 @@ Put the connection cache in the share object and make all easy handles using
this share object share the connection cache. Using this, you can for example
do multi-threaded libcurl use with one handle in each thread, and yet have a
shared pool of unused connections and this way get way better connection
-re-use than if you use one separate pool in each thread. Support for this was
-added in 7.57.0, but the symbol existed long before this.
+re-use than if you use one separate pool in each thread.
+
+Connections that are used for HTTP/1.1 Pipelining or HTTP/2 multiplexing only
+get additional transfers added to them if the existing connection is held by
+the same multi or easy handle. libcurl does not support doing HTTP/2 streams
+in different threads using a shared connection.
+
+Support for \fBCURL_LOCK_DATA_CONNECT\fP was added in 7.57.0, but the symbol
+existed before this.
.RE
.IP CURLSHOPT_UNSHARE
This option does the opposite of \fICURLSHOPT_SHARE\fP. It specifies that
diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 731e67e17..fc59a209f 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -1293,6 +1293,11 @@ ConnectionExists(struct Curl_easy *data,
already in use so we skip it */
continue;
+ if((check->inuse) && (check->data->multi != needle->data->multi))
+ /* this could be subject for pipeline/multiplex use, but only
+ if they belong to the same multi handle */
+ continue;
+
if(needle->localdev || needle->localport) {
/* If we are bound to a specific local end (IP+port), we must not
re-use a random other one, although if we didn't ask for a