HTTP Keep-Alive Response header - could we force the gateway to send this header attribute ?

Products

• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

We are running API gateway 10.0CR05. We have an issue with some clients and their connection pool, because the response does not include a keep-alive attribute.

How can we enable a keep-alive http header in all responses with a defined value ?

In Gateway 10.1, this is enabled by default:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-api-management/api-gateway/10-1/release-notes/new-features-and-enhancements.html

 

Environment

Release : 10.0

Resolution

The useKeepAliveResponseHeader option does not exist in tomcat 7 so you can not enable it . to use this you need to upgrade to gateway 10.1 

As a workaround you can add the keep alive headers to the response using the add header assertion before sending the response .

add the  "missing" HTTP headers:"

Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=60

This would work  as long as the keepAliveTimeout passed to tomcat from the listen port setting is 60 sec .

By default this it the same as the connectionTimeout which is indeed 60 sec , if you use another keep alive timeout in the header you need to adjust the connectiontimeout but this could impact other services .

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html