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keven_Wang_1124
Nimbostratus
Feb 27, 2006Will BigIP automaticly close TCP session after a HTTP request
Hi all,
I write a iRules and find that when a client sends a HTTP request to BigIP, after BigIP sends response, the status of client is CLISE_WAIT and client receives a "FIN ACK" message (I ...
drteeth_127330
Feb 27, 2006Historic F5 Account
Actually, the longer answer is that it depends. If the client request is HTTP/1.0 and includes a Connection: Keep-Alive header, then BIG-IP will not close the connection. Similarly, if the client request is HTTP/1.1 and does not include a Connection: close header, then BIG-IP will not close the connection. However, if the server returns a Connection: close response header, then BIG-IP will propagate the close unless OneConnect transformations are configured. There are some subtle issues with certain status codes and early shutdowns, but that's the basic idea.
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