keep-alive curl C htttps POST - c

Question

With this code I am sending strings to a webserver using libcurl and write the data to a MySQL (is done at the webserver).
My Problem is that for every call of this function the program starts a new key exchange with the webserver. I would like to have a persistant connection to the Server.
I searched here and web already and didnt find any satisfying solutions.
Multi-handler and forced keep alive still open a new connection.
Following is my Code to establish an SSL Connection:
CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
res = curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT); // Check for errors
if(res != CURLE_OK) {
fprintf(stderr, "curl_global_init() failed: %s\n",
curl_easy_strerror(res));
return 1;
}
// curl handler
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, STRING);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://IP/something/something.php");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, 1L);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L); //verbose output activated
struct curl_slist *headers=NULL;
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json"); // type JSON
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
// Perform the request, res will get the return code
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
// Check for errors
if(res != CURLE_OK)
fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
curl_easy_strerror(res));
// cleanup
curl_slist_free_all(headers);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
curl_global_cleanup();

Answer 1

is Answered by Daniel Stenberg here, which is a similar/the same question.
Re-use the same curl handle in subsequent requests! Don't call curl_easy_cleanup(curl) and curl_easy_init() again between them.
So the Solution is to call curl_easy_cleanup(curl) and curl_easy_init() only once.