Reusing ASIO connection, read_some exception - http

Question

I am currently trying to figure out how to properly reuse an asio socket. I am able to successfully send out a request, and get the result. The second time I send out a request, I get an exception: read_some: End of file. The second write seems to work fine, I see the second http request going out over wireshark. I am thinking that there is left over information on the socket that is corrupting my connection in some way. Any help would be appreciated with this issue. Here is the code I am using:
persistent_connection::persistent_connection(std::string ip, std::string port):
io_service_(), socket_(io_service_), is_setup_(false)
{
boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver resolver(io_service_);
boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver::query query(ip,port);
boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver::iterator iterator = resolver.resolve(query);
boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint endpoint = *iterator;
socket_.async_connect(endpoint, boost::bind(&persistent_connection::handler_connect, this, boost::asio::placeholders::error, iterator));
io_service_.run();
}
void persistent_connection::handler_connect(const boost::system::error_code &ec, boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver::iterator endpoint_iterator)
{
if(ec)
{
std::cout << "Couldn't connect" << ec << std::endl;
return;
}
else
{
boost::asio::socket_base::keep_alive keep_option(true);
socket_.set_option(keep_option);
}
}
void persistent_connection::write(std::string message)
{
std::string request_stream = "GET /" + message + " HTTP/1.0\r\n";
request_stream += "HOST: 10.1.10.220";
request_stream += "Accept: */*\r\n";
request_stream += "Connection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n";
try
{
boost::asio::write(socket_, boost::asio::buffer(request_stream, request_stream.size()));
}catch(std::exception& e)
{
std::cout << "Write exception: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}
boost::array<char,8192> buf;
try
{
socket_.read_some(boost::asio::buffer(buf));
}catch(std::exception& e)
{
std::cout << "Read exception: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}
std::string response = buf.data();
std::cout << response << std::endl;
}
Edit: Added main function.
int main()
{
persistent_connection p("10.1.10.220", "80");
std::string check;
do
{
std::cin >> check;
if(check.compare("s") == 0)
{
std::cout << "Sending" << std::endl;
p.write("100");
}
}while(check.compare("x") != 0);
}

Answer 1

The fact you get this exception when trying to read_some means that the HTTP server closes the connection after the first request is over, i.e. the server ignores "Connection: keep-alive" header (note that HTTP 1.0 servers don't necessarily support persistent connections).
However, in 1.1 version connections are persistent by default, so requesting "HTTP/1.1" should solve this issue.