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Redirect sends "Connection: Keep-Alive" header
Using a basic HTTP redirect statement: if { blah }{
HTTP::redirect https://$host:$newport[HTTP::uri]
return
}
we're seing an HTTP 1.0 response with a Keep-Alive header, even though the cl...
While you could do a HTTP::header Replace and replace the Connection header to set the value to "close", this wouldn't get you very far. The "close" value wasn't supported in HTTP 1.0. It wasn't until 1.1. that the Connection header makes use of the close value.
You could, however, try removing the connection header if you are seeing unwanted results due to the keep-alive value being set.
Like:
HTTP::header Remove ConnectionI'd be interested to hear what problems you're seeing, though, by having the keep-alive value set between the BIG-IP and the client.
Colin
