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rjones_01_14578
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Sep 20, 2016

Keep Connection open on redirect

I have a 443 VS that keeps the connections open and reuse them when needed. I have a 80 VS that redirects to 443 but it always closes the connection after each connection. How can I keep the connecti...
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tatmotiv
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Sep 21, 2016

Why would you want to keep the tcp connection to port 80 open after the redirect? In most cases (if the service is configured properly), there will not be any further http requests to port 80 as the redirection already has happened. All subsequent requests should go to port 443, which of course can only be handled in a separate tcp connection due to the changed destination port.