On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Praveen Pvs wrote:

> if we use keep alive options also host could still close the connection
> which is happening in my case.

Absolutely. No keep alive options will help much in your case.

> Adding to the question on top of this: In this link
> https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-thomson-hybi-http-timeout-01.html#rfc.section.2

That's a draft for a header specification that never went into the HTTP spec.
Read RFC 7230 for understanding how HTTP 1.1 works.

> Below is the header generated by curl after enabling keep-alive. Why am I
> not seeing connection type and keepalive timeout in the headers ?

Because HTTP 1.1 has no such headers. Persistent connections are by default
and connections will be kept alive by the server for a while after use, but it
isn't normally advertised by the server. Clients and browsers also tend to
keep connections alive for N seconds after use.

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