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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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Matt_D_58722
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Apr 09, 2009
I have a similar question. We have a backend application that keeps closing the TCP connection after each HTTP get, even though 1.1 is in use and the client requests Keep-Alive. If we find that we can't modify this behavior by the app, can we configure LTM to rewrite the response "Connection: close" with a "Connection: Keep-Alive" so that the client does not tear down the session to the LTM?