HTTP requests2: how to deal with server that keeps the connection alive?

[streammyevent]

I'm trying to extract current power usage information from a P1 device with an API, but the server is poorly written and doesn't respond to the "Connection: close" header, keeping the connection alive no matter what:

*   Trying 192.168.10.22:80...
* Connected to 192.168.10.22 (192.168.10.22) port 80
> GET /api/v1/data HTTP/1.1
> Host: 192.168.10.22
> User-Agent: curl/8.4.0
> Accept: */*
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: application/json
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: application/json
< Content-Length: 1178
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< 
* Connection #0 to host 192.168.10.22 left intact
{"wifi_ssid":"(redacted)","wifi_strength":62,"smr_version":50,"meter_model":"ISKRA 2M550T-1011","unique_id":"(redacted)","active_tariff":2,"total_power_import_kwh":118615.868,"total_power_import_t1_kwh":31059.650,"total_power_import_t2_kwh":87556.218,"total_power_export_kwh":0.016,"total_power_export_t1_kwh":0.002,"total_power_export_t2_kwh":0.014,"active_power_w":5921.000,"active_power_l1_w":1424.000,"active_power_l2_w":1449.000,"active_power_l3_w":3074.000,"active_voltage_l1_v":226.400,"active_voltage_l2_v":225.100,"active_voltage_l3_v":226.700,"active_current_a":26.287,"active_current_l1_a":6.290,"active_current_l2_a":6.437,"active_current_l3_a":13.560,"voltage_sag_l1_count":7.000,"voltage_sag_l2_count":6.000,"voltage_sag_l3_count":7.000,"voltage_swell_l1_count":1.000,"voltage_swell_l2_count":1.000,"voltage_swell_l3_count":1.000,"any_power_fail_count":6.000,"long_power_fail_count":11.000,"total_gas_m3":13682.241,"gas_timestamp":241111145004,"gas_unique_id":"(redacted)","external":[{"unique_id":"(redacted)","type":"gas_meter","timestamp":241111145004,"value":13682.241,"unit":"m3"}]}%

This causes request2 to freeze when trying to get the response contents, like when calling 'print(http_req.text)'. Performing a GET request on any other server works fine, so it's pretty clear to me that this is the issue.

If I add a timeout to the request, like so:

http_req = requests2.get('http://192.168.10.22/api/v1/data', headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Connection': "close"}, timeout=2)

Then that just triggers an error and crashes the application.

Many servers keep the connection alive by default, leading to this issue. Is there a way to work around it?

[kuriko]

@streammyevent
You may try open a session.

[streammyevent]

@kuriko any pointers on how to do that? There's nothing about it in the docs:
https://uiflow-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/develop/software/requests2.html