Flash LS plugin HTTP connection question

By using Flash LS plugin in our flash player we see that there is a lot more buffering when using Flash LS to stream HLS content compared to using MP4 progressive download that does not use FlashLS.

I was wondering if FlashLS code for HTTP client connections, is it using HTTP 1.1 Keep Alive connections or is it using non persistent connections. This can make a difference in eliminating part of the request latency to fetch subsequent ts segments and improve performance.

I would appreciate if you can also provide link to the netstream object http client code in this player to look at for checking what other options for connection tuning there might be..

Start with the FlashLS HTTP client and the NetStream object code referenced in the issue. Determine whether segment requests use persistent HTTP/1.1 connections and identify any connection-tuning options; done means documenting the connection behavior and relevant code location.

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