PaulS:
Every server I've ever heard of sends SOME kind of response when you request a page. The client connection is not closed until you've read the entire response. Make 4 requests, and don't read any responses, and those 4 client connections are going to remain open, and unavailable for reuse.
Thanks for the response. So just to be clear, you're confirming the suspicion that I need to include a snippet of code that explicitly closes the connection after every GET request, right?