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Haproxy - timeout http-request vs timeout http-keep-alive vs timeout server

I'm trying to wrap my head around how the haproxy options timeout http-request timeout http-keep-alive timeout server interact with each other. I'm running an Apache website on two app servers living behind a haproxy…
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How filter only keep-alive packet with tcpdump

I need to analyze a traffic-dump on my network to check if all the PCs have enabled tcp keep-live features. I'm using tcpdump for that purpose. What I need to know is if there is a possibility to filter for only the keep-alive packets. On windows I…
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Is it possible to tell nginx over fastcgi to pass a Connection: close header through unaltered?

TL;DR: How can I tell nginx from my php-fpm backend to a) send a "Connection: close" header and b) to not buffer my response? I have a set up running php-fpm behind nginx. In general, this works very well and I'm happy with it, but there are a few…
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How do I confirm whether a particular Apache configuration directive is set?

How do I dynamically check/list a particular Apache configuration directive? I know that this can be checked manually from httpd.conf file, but is there any other way this can be confirmed/found from a running Apache server process? For example: In…
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Configure keep alive timeout on Jetty 6.1.19

How do you set the timeout on keep alive connections to the Jetty web server (in my case v6.1.19)? I would like to configure how long Jetty keeps connections open when a client requests keep alive. Currently it seems indefinite.
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Reducing HTTPS handshake by http-keepalive behind a load balancer - possible?

I have an api into which ill get quite a few requests in https. Since its restful, each time the api is sent , it requires a full ssl handshake. On enabling http-keepalive , the latency of the request is reduced greatly (first request takes same…
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Configuring nginx reverse proxy to send TCP keep alive packets to server

We have IIS servers in Azure behind load balancer. Load balancer has unconfigurable timeout of 4 minutes after which inactive connection is killed. We're trying to setup nginx as a reverse proxy to the IIS cluster described above. Everything works…
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Tuning tcp_keepalive_time for Node.js leak

I'm currently having a socket leak with my Node.js application. This bug is also posted here. I hope to fix this soon. CLOSE_WAIT and FIN_WAIT2 seem to be the major problem. Connections: 1662 ESTABLISHED: 238 CLOSE_WAIT: 770 FIN_WAIT1: …
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Apache 2.2: RewriteMap, ProxyPass interpolation and Keep-Alive

I have an Apache httpd used as a SSL reverse proxy frontend for a lot of backends. I compute the name of the backend from the path given by the user. e.g: https://myhostname.com/myaccount translates to http://myaccount.myhostname.com For this I use…
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Keep-Alive header not sent from Tomcat 5.5 http connector?

We're currently using a hardware load balancer, which then goes to Apache and that then goes to Tomcat 5.5 via the AJP connector. We've decided to dump apache for various reasons - In our current system it doesnt provide any advantage. However when…
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nginx: log which requests where done over the same keep-alive connection

Is there any way to create a custom log file, that allows to see which requests were handled in the same keep-alive session? I'd like to create some logs and to estimate how often new sessions are created and what typical live times a keep alive…
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Is there a way to keep internet connection alive?

Im running linux and I have a task which runs only after midnight. The internet connection I use for this, goes offline if there's a period of inactivity and I want to keep the internet connection alive until midnight by some means (ex: putting it…
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HAProxy doesn't keep-alive http connection

I've switched on the option http-keep-alive in the defaults, as well as tried it in the frontend definition. But the Response Headers in the browser never show up keep-alive, although its there in Request Headers of the browser. Using Chrome as a…
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Is tcp_keepalive application dependant on Linux?

According to http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/index.html , the kernel keepalive function occurs at the OS level, and doesn't require an application to explicitly call it. However I also read about how an application must call it (using…
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In Nginx can I set Keep-Alive dynamically depending on ssl connection?

I would like to avoid having to repeat all the virtualhost server {} blocks in nginx just to have custom ssl settings that vary slightly from plain http requests. Most ssl directives can be placed right in the main block, except one hurdle I cannot…
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