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HTTP Keep Alive

(QW.ClientConnectionControl)

Overview​

This feature is configured at the site level.

This is a private feature developed by Qwilt.

HTTP Keep Alive lets you manage persistent client-to-CDN connections for faster content delivery, reduced latency, and improved performance.

Connection pooling and reuse (Keep Alive) are enabled by default by Qwilt CDN. This feature lets you specify the number of milliseconds that an idle connection remains open before being closed.

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This SVTA object is also used to configure the IPv6 Client Connection Support feature.

Example​

In this example, the keep-alive time is set to 80,000 milliseconds.

{
  "generic-metadata-type": "MI.PrivateFeature.Qwilt.QW.ClientConnectionControl",
  "generic-metadata-value": {
    "connection-keep-alive-time-ms": 80000
  }
}

Supported Properties​

FieldDescriptionValid ValuesDefault
connection-keep-alive-time-msIdle keep-alive timeout in milliseconds. The maximum supported keep-alive time for client-to-CDN connections is 3000,000 milliseconds.integer (ms)60,000