HTTP keep-alive problem: Need it on client side, but can't allow it on server side.

Hi!

 

 

I'm in a situation where the server side can't handle HTTP keep-alive connections, but I need to have it enabled on the client side.

 

 

CLIENT ---- keep-alive ----- BIG-IP ------ no keep-alive ------ SERVER

 

 

I've created an iRule that modifies the HTTP Connection header of the clients request to include "Connection: close", when sent to the server side. When the server responds it also has a "Connection: close" header, which I remove, but the BIGIP still sends a FIN, ACK to the client and closes the connection.

Any advice is appriciated.

 

 

Thanks