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Justin_Huff_481's avatar
Justin_Huff_481
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Sep 08, 2008

Keep-Alive on the client but not server side

I have a backend app that doesn't like http keep-alive/persistent connections. However, I'd really like the client to do persistent connections to the LB. The LB would then make non-persistent http ...
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Deb_Allen_18's avatar
Deb_Allen_18
Historic F5 Account
Feb 17, 2009
You can try forcing the serverside to HTTP/1.0 as we do to prevent chunking (another 1.1-only behaviour):
       Don't allow data to be chunked 
       if { [HTTP::version] eq "1.1" } { 
          if { [HTTP::header is_keepalive] } { 
             HTTP::header replace "Connection" "Keep-Alive" 
          } 
          HTTP::version "1.0" 
       }

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