I'm trying to verify that HTTP persistent connections are being used during communication with a Tomcat webserver I've got running. Currently, I can retrieve a resource on my server from a browser (e.g. Chrome) and verify using netstat that the connection is established: # visit http://server:8080/path/to/resource in Chrome [server:/tmp]$ netstat -a ... tcp 0 0 server.mydomain:webcache client.mydo