Re: Aggressively timing out proxy connections?

Sander Temme <sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:17:45 -0800

On Dec 21, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Sander Temme wrote:

Or, alternatively, can I turn off connection re-use altogether? I  

don't know that our traffic level needs persistent connections.

OK, I believe I got it... no 502s in the past half hour. I added a

SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

to the <Location> blocks that were proxied through the offending  

firewall.

This is even documented (blush):

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#envsettings

It seems to be working great: connections to the back-end are sent  

with the Connection: close header and immediately torn down after the  

request with a FIN sequence. Connections between the Application  

Router and the client remain full HTTP/1.1, with Keepalive.

Neat.

S.

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