Can someone point me to the settings/guidelines required to keep socket connections alive? The documentation clearly says that maxKeepAliveRequests if not specified is 100 by default. However, when I do a netstat -a, during intermittent client calls, I do not see any ESTABLISHED sockets. I have deployed a simple servlet that returns a 200 OK in the doPost. The client code does some POSTs, sleeps for a while and does some POSTs again. During the sleep I am seeing the sockets in TIME_WAIT state while I would have expected to see them as ESTABLISHED. Few things that I have tried/verified: 1) The "Content-Length" header is correctly passed by the client code 2) The Client code creates HttpURLConnection objects, sets request parameters, calls connect(), but does not call disconnect(). I have also tried writing a CRLF after the POST body as I read in an earlier thread that some browsers signal end of post using CRLF. 3) A "Connection: keep-alive" header is passed by the client. 4) Added -Dhttp.keepAlive="true" to the java run options in catalina.sh.
5) Explicitly specified a maxKeepAliveRequests. ~DJ
