Re: linux tcp keepalive for http?

From: PC (uri_at_ipdaily.org)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:41:10 -0700

I have not researched this lately, someone can correct me on this, but it
seems to me the cgi data passed by the browser shows as keep alive is
implimented by the browser software. The browser itself sets the socket
option for keep alive when it opens the socket connection.

"MDO" <osbormd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dd4834b.0408130936.5ba1646c@posting.google.com...
> Is there a way to implement tcp keepalive packets for http sessions in
> Linux/Apache? Ie. where a tcp packet is sent every 15 seconds or so?
> This would be used to keep the session active if it is waiting on a
> long database query to return a result.
>
> Thanks
> Mike