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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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Kai_Wilke
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Sep 21, 2016

Hi Rjones,

there is no relationship between the HTTP and HTTP Virtual Servers. You can savely close the connection on HTTP without getting any side effecs for the subsequent HTTPS request.

I guess its just CURL that tricks you out and send slightly different request for 

curl -IL https://clients.F5.com
and 
curl -IL clients.F5.com
.

You could issue a 

curl -v -IL https://clients.F5.com
and 
curl -v -IL clients.F5.com
to see any differenced in CURLs request headers.

Cheers, Kai