Websockets - recommended settings question

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 04:29:21PM +1200, Cain wrote:

> In the nginx documentation (https://www.nginx.com/blog/websocket-nginx), it
> is recommended to set the 'Connection' header to 'close' (if there is no
> upgrade header) - from my understanding, this disables keep alive from
> nginx to the upstream - is there a reason for this?
> 
> Additionally, is keep alive the default behaviour when connecting to
> upstreams?

"Connection: close" is the default, unless you've explicitly 
configured keepalive and set it to an empty value, see docs here:

http://nginx.org/r/keepalive

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Maxim Dounin
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