We have been using haproxy in production for around 6 months while using httpclose. We use functions like reqidel, reqadd to manipulate request headers and use_backend to route a request to a specific backend.
We run websites which often have ajax calls and load javascripts and css files from the server. Thinking about keep alive, I think it would be desired to keep client side keep alive so that they can reuse connections to load images, javascript, css and make ajax calls over it. >From a haproxy request processing and manipulating perspective, Is there a difference between http-server-close and httpclose? Would reqadd/reqidel/use_backend work on subsequent requests during client side keep alive too? I tried running some tests and I was able to reqadd/reqidel and use_backend while using http-server-close, but I wanted to check with the group before pushing the change to production. Also, what's a good keep alive value for a web server. I was thinking around 10 seconds which would slow clients (include mobile) enough time to process an html document and initiate requests for additional resources. Thanks, Vivek
