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Optional: Configuring ASE persistent connections

You can optionally configure TCP keep-alive connections in the ase.conf file of API Security Enforcer (ASE).

About this task

To configure TCP keep-alive connections:

Steps

  • Set the enable_sideband_keepalive variable to true.

    The following snippet is from ase.conf displaying the default enable_sideband_keepalive variable. The default value is set to false.

    ; enable connection keepalive for requests from gateway to ase.
; This setting is applicable only in sideband mode.
; Once enabled ase will add 'Connection: keep-alive' header in response
; Once disabled ase will add 'Connection: close' header in response
enable_sideband_keepalive=false