Sharing system managed http client sessions across processes

A system comprising:

• a server;
• and
• a client device that communicates with the server using HTTP, the client device configured to share HTTP client sessions among multiple application processes being executed by the client device, the client device configured to:
• create a set of HTTP client sessions for the server;
• in response to receiving an HTTP request from an application process, the HTTP request is for communicating with the server:
• assign an HTTP client session from the set of HTTP client sessions to the application process;
• and
• send the HTTP request from the application process to the server via the HTTP client session that is assigned;
• and
• in response to receiving a reply from the server:
• deselect the HTTP client session from the application process;
• and
• send the reply from the server to the application process.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processing circuit of a client computing device to cause the processing circuit to share HTTP client sessions among multiple processes, the processing circuit configured to perform:

• creating a set of HTTP client sessions for a remote server;
• in response to receiving an HTTP request from an application process, the HTTP request is for communicating with the remote server:
• assigning an HTTP client session from the set of HTTP client sessions to the application process;
• and
• sending the HTTP request from the application process to the remote server via the HTTP client session that is assigned;
• and
• in response to receiving a reply from the remote server:
• deselecting the HTTP client session from the application process;
• and
• sending the reply from the remote server to the application process.