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Landono's avatar
Landono
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Sep 30, 2013

How to extend network timeout for specific PHP call

I'm new to F5, so please excuse me if this is a very basic question.   We're currently transitioning from Nginx to Big-IP LTMs (2000 and 4000 series). Currently in Nginx we have our keep alive tim...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 01, 2013

I believe you should be able to use the IP::idle_timeout command:

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/investigating-the-ltm-tcp-profile-max-syn-retransmissions-amp-idle-timeout.UkqwLT-K7wQ

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.IP__idle_timeout.ashx

So something like this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/longcall.php" } {
        IP::idle_timeout 300
        set update_server_idle 1
    }
}
when SERVER_CONNECTED {
    if { [info exists update_server_idle] } {
        IP::idle_timeout 300
    }
}