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Bring the READMEs and the docs pages (en and ja) in line with the current header: - Fix the client sample that does not compile, the Transfer-Encoding statement for default headers, the verifier callback comment, the thread pool spawn rule, the sanitize_filename description, and the inverted Accept-Encoding sentence. - Describe recent behaviour: TLS errors behind Read/Write failures, Host validation, Connection: close for a body without length, content_reader rules, refused CONNECT, WebSocketClient proxies, CPPHTTPLIB_INTERIM_RESPONSE_MAX_COUNT, the SSE event size limit, and the payload limit of the Stream API. - Complete the API references of WebSocket, WebSocketClient and the stream:: helpers, and the SSE reconnect rules. - Fix cookbook pages: keychain loading on every backend, received Close status, a multipart sample that trusted the client's file name, an echo sample that sent binary as text, SNI, pre-request handler scope, stop() with WebSocket handlers, and the thread pool notes. - Restore the mutex in the LLM app's Chapter 5 code.
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title: "S20. Tune Keep-Alive"
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order: 39
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status: "draft"
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---
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`httplib::Server` enables HTTP/1.1 Keep-Alive automatically. From the client's perspective, connections are reused — so they don't pay the TCP handshake cost on every request. When you need to tune the behavior, there are two setters.
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## What you can configure
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| API | Default | Meaning |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| `set_keep_alive_max_count` | 100 | Max requests served over a single connection (0 for no limit) |
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| `set_keep_alive_timeout` | 5s | How long an idle connection is kept before closing |
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## Basic usage
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```cpp
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httplib::Server svr;
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svr.set_keep_alive_max_count(20);
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svr.set_keep_alive_timeout(10); // 10 seconds
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svr.listen("0.0.0.0", 8080);
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```
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`set_keep_alive_timeout()` also has a `std::chrono` overload.
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```cpp
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using namespace std::chrono_literals;
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svr.set_keep_alive_timeout(10s);
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```
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## Tuning ideas
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**Too many idle connections eating resources**
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Shorten the timeout so idle connections drop and release their worker threads.
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```cpp
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svr.set_keep_alive_timeout(2s);
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```
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**API is hammered and you want max reuse**
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Raising the per-connection request cap improves benchmark numbers.
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```cpp
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svr.set_keep_alive_max_count(1000);
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```
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**Never reuse connections**
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Set `set_keep_alive_max_count(1)` and every request gets its own connection. Mostly only useful for debugging or compatibility testing.
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## Relationship with the thread pool
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A Keep-Alive connection holds a worker thread for its entire lifetime. The pool adds threads under load, up to its maximum thread count (4× the base count by default). If open connections outnumber that maximum, new connections wait in the queue until one closes. For thread counts, see [S21. Configure the thread pool](../s21-thread-pool).
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> **Note:** For the client side, see [C14. Understand connection reuse and Keep-Alive behavior](../c14-keep-alive). Even when the server closes the connection on timeout, the client reconnects automatically.
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