Top "Keep-alive" questions

A feature of HTTP where the same connection is used for multiple requests, speeding up downloading of web pages with multiple resources.

Does a TCP socket connection have a "keep alive"?

I have heard of HTTP keep-alive but for now I want to open a socket connection with a remote server. …

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How to keep an iPhone app running on background fully operational

first of all, I know there is only support for voip, audio and location apps to run in background and …

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Keep-alive header clarification

I was asked to build a site , and one of the co-developer told me That I would need to include …

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HTTP keep-alive timeout

Can I specify the HTTP timeout or does the server impose a value? For example, if I do: telnet my.…

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Persistent/keepalive HTTP with the PHP Curl library?

I'm using a simple PHP library to add documents to a SOLR index, via HTTP. There are 3 servers involved, currently: …

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"Connection: Keep-Alive" in server response

I'm trying to establish a HTTP persistent connection from a Silverlight application to a PHP page (ie without creating a …

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How to set the HTTP Keep-Alive timeout in a nodejs server

I'm actually doing some load testing against an ExpressJS server, and I noticed that the response send by the server …

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How do I shutdown a Node.js http(s) server immediately?

I have a Node.js application that contains an http(s) server. In a specific case, I need to shutdown …

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HttpsUrlConnection and keep-alive

I am using com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpsServer in my current project which deals with client-authentification etc.. Currently it only …

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How to use SO_KEEPALIVE option properly to detect that the client at the other end is down?

I was trying to learn the usage of option SO_KEEPALIVE in socket programming in C language under Linux environment. …

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