Trying to loop a http request using the Arduino Adafruit CC3000 Webclient - arduino

Question

I am trying to retrieve data from a webpage to my Arduino on a looping 5 second interval. I'm building off the Adafruit CC3000 'Webclient' example.
The complete code can be seen here.
Everything works as expected, the Arduino connects to the network and then makes a single request to the specified website.
Now I'm trying to add the loop, so that the Arduino gets the refreshed data. I don't want to disconnect and then have to reconnect to the wifi network so I tried to loop the following code.
void myLoop(uint32_t ip)
{
// START LOOPING
int count = 0;
while(count == 0) {
Adafruit_CC3000_Client www = cc3000.connectTCP(ip, 80);
if (www.connected()) {
www.fastrprint(F("GET "));
www.fastrprint(WEBPAGE);
www.fastrprint(F(" HTTP/1.1\r\n"));
www.fastrprint(F("Host: ")); www.fastrprint(WEBSITE); www.fastrprint(F("\r\n"));
www.fastrprint(F("\r\n"));
www.println();
} else {
Serial.println(F("Connection failed"));
return;
}
/* Read data until either the connection is closed, or the idle timeout is reached. */
//unsigned long lastRead = millis();
while (www.connected()) {
while (www.available()) {
char c = www.read();
content = c;
Serial.print(c);
//lastRead = millis();
}
}
www.close();
Serial.println(F("\n\nDisconnecting"));
cc3000.disconnect();
delay(5000);
}
}
The loop runs perfectly once, but after the first iteration continually outputs "Connection Failed".
It appears that I cannot run the connectTCP function more than once but I cannot understand why
Adafruit_CC3000_Client www = cc3000.connectTCP(ip, 80);
I've also tried removing this from the loop and removing the www.close(); and cc3000.disconnect(); but it still fails to leave the connection open.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm also new using CC3000 and had a same problem with that code before.
you cannot connecting again because you put cc3000.disconnect(); inside the loop()
so just remove it, but keep the www.close(); in the loop().

Answer 2

I had the same issue, the cc3000 connecting only once or 3-4 http requests (Get) before crashing.
Now i have it working like this:
on the loop():
Adafruit_CC3000_Client www = cc3000.connectTCP(ip, WEBPORT);
delay(300);
if (www.connected()) {
//your http request get
//with a connection close:
www.fastrprint(F("GET "));
//inser your stuff
www.fastrprint(F("Connection: close\r\n"));
www.fastrprint(F("\r\n"));
www.println();
} else {
Serial.println(F("Connection failed"));
return;
}
//reading response
while(www.connected()){
while (www.available()) {
char c = www.read();
Serial.print(c);
}
}
www.stop();
delay(100);
www.close();
delay(200);
and stop&close the client at the end.
Hope this helps someone.. took mi so long to have this easy stuff working!