change timeouts or headers per-request with persistent?

[jrochkind]

If I have a persistent connection client, with a default timeout set.

http = HTTP.timeout(5).persistent("https://example.com")

is there any way to change timeouts just for one request?

I think if I do this:

http.timeout(10).get("https://example.com/foo")

I'll actually wind up with a new instance of the client, so probably not re-use the existing connection? Or am I wrong there?

worse, this seems to be true for headers too. What if I want to re-use a persistent connection with keep-alive, but send different headers with different requests? I am pretty sure that is possible with HTTP 1.1... but maybe not with http-rb? it looks to me the only method to set request headers will branch to a new object that does not share the same persistent connection?

Is there any way to keep re-using the keep-alive persistent connection, but set timeouts or headers on on a per-request basis?

Thanks for any tips!