On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:48:43PM +0200, Baptiste wrote: > > Basically, I want the client<>haProxy side to use keep alive, but > > haProxy<>server side to close every connection and open a new one for each > > request. > > > > Is it then correct to use http-server-close? > > You are correct. Set it up in your defaults section or in both the > frontend and the backend. > > > Also, has anybody had any issues with http-server-close in high traffic > > environments? Like lingering connections, connections not closed properly > > etc. > > This feature has been available for many years and it is very stable > for many years too :) > You can use without any issue.
And it used to be the only way to have keep-alive in 1.4 and most users continue to use it even on 1.5 or 1.6 since it preserves server resources. It's much better than keep-alive for small to moderate loads when the servers are very close to the LB since you don't care about the time it takes to set up a TCP connection. Cheers, Willy
