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astokes_6920
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Nov 10, 2009

HTTP monitor with HEAD, not GET

While using the following monitor, I'm finding that the web servers are keeping TCP sessions in the TIME_WAIT state, rather than closing them outright.     GET /serverin.html HTTP/1.1\r\nCo...
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L4L7_53191
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Mar 14, 2011
I second Aaron's comment about adding Connection: close - give this a try first. That should explicitly tell the server to close down the connection and not assume a keep-alive request.

 

-Matt