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sundogbrew's avatar
sundogbrew
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Nov 10, 2017

TCP-timeout question

Hey guys, Got an interesting (to me anyway) question. I have a user with an application that does long queries that run in the background. It was timing out and so I created a new TCP profile for i...
application delivery
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Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Nov 13, 2017

You can try to detect if the request requires long timeout (filter by a HTTP header, URI, ...) and change the timeout.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if {[HTTP::host] equals "www.company.com" && [HTTP::path] equals "/long_time_request"} {
        TCP::idletime 1800
    }
}

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
     set the timeout to 30 seconds after server response to prevent DOS abuse.
    TCP::idletime 30
}