http::redirect and http::close and not closing the session.

Did you ever take the "event disable all" out and verify that in fact the browser was reusing the same connection after the redirect? I'm not sure what your rationale is behind disabling all future rule event processing after the redirect. If the browser determines that it later has a request to the same ip address as a connection it already has open, then why does it need to use a new connection? As long as it redirects the next request also... ???