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  • Cloud Load Balancers 1.0
  • Getting started
    • Get your credentials
    • Sending API requests to Cloud Load Balancers
      • Convert cURL examples to run on Windows
    • Authenticate to the Rackspace Cloud
      • Send an authentication request
      • Review the authentication response
      • Configure environment variables
    • Load balancer concepts
      • Load balancer
      • Virtual IP
      • Error page
      • Node
      • Health monitor
      • Session persistence
      • Connection logging
    • Create and manage Cloud Load Balancers
      • Creating Cloud Servers
      • Creating a Load Balancer
      • Listing Load Balancer details
      • Adding a node
      • Updating Load Balancer attributes
  • General API information
    • Service access endpoints
    • Request and response types
    • Content compression
    • Persistent connections
    • Paginated collections
    • Limits
      • Rate limits
      • Absolute limits
      • Retrieve account limits
    • Faults
      • serviceFault
      • badRequest
      • immutableEntity
      • itemNotFound
      • loadBalancerFault
      • outOfVirtualIps
      • overLimit
      • serviceUnavailable
      • unauthorized
      • unprocessableEntity
    • Date and time format
    • API behavior and statuses
    • Compatible shared load balancing protocols
      • DNS-compatible load balancing protocols
      • TCP- and UDP-compatible load balancing protocols
    • Role-based access control (RBAC)
      • Assigning roles to account users
      • Roles available for Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers
      • Multiproduct global roles and permissions
      • Resolving conflicts between RBAC multiproduct and product-specific roles
      • RBAC permissions cross-reference to Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers API operations
    • HTTP/2 Support
  • API reference
    • Load balancers
      • List load balancers
      • Create load balancer
      • Bulk-delete load balancers
      • Show load balancer details
      • Update load balancer properties
      • Delete load balancer
    • Error pages
      • Show custom error page
      • Set custom error page
      • Delete custom error page
    • Load balancer statistics
      • Show load balancer statistics
    • Nodes
      • List nodes
      • Add node
      • Bulk-delete nodes
      • Show node details
      • Update node
      • Delete node
      • List node service events
    • Virtual IPs
      • List virtual IPs
      • Add virtual IP version 6
      • Bulk-delete virtual IPs
      • Delete virtual IP
    • Allowed domains
      • List allowed domains
    • Usage reports
      • Show historical usage
      • Show account-level usage
      • Show current usage
      • List billable load balancers
    • Access lists
      • Show access list
      • Create or update access list
      • Delete access list
      • Bulk-delete networks from access list
      • Delete network from access list
    • Monitors
      • Show health monitor configuration
      • Update health monitor
      • Delete health monitor
    • Session persistence
      • Show session persistence configuration
      • Enable session persistence
      • Disable session persistence
    • Log connections
      • Show connection logging configuration
      • Enable or disable connection logging
    • Throttle connections
      • Show connection throttling configuration
      • Create or update connection throttling configuration
      • Delete connection throttling configuration
    • Content caching
      • Show content caching configuration
      • Enable content caching
    • Protocols
      • List load balancing protocols
    • Algorithms
      • List load balancing algorithms
    • SSL termination
      • Show SSL termination configuration
      • Update SSL termination configuration
      • Delete SSL termination
    • Certificate mappings
      • List certificate mappings
      • Add certificate mapping
      • Show certificate mappings details
      • Update certificate mapping
      • Delete certificate mapping
    • Ciphers
      • Cipher profiles
      • Cipher Statuses
      • List ciphers
    • Metadata
      • Add load balancer metadata
      • Show load balancer metadata
      • Bulk-delete load balancer metadata items
      • Show load balancer metadata item
      • Update load balancer metadata item
      • Delete load balancer metadata item
      • Show load balancer node metadata
      • Add load balancer node metadata item
      • Bulk-delete load balancer node metadata items
      • Show load balancer node metadata item
      • Update load balancer node metadata item
      • Delete load balancer node metadata item
  • Release notes
    • v1.27.09, Nov 18th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.27.07, Oct 21st, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.27.06, Sept 29th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.27.05, Sept 9th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.27.04, Aug 26th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.27.03, Aug 12th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.27.01, Jul 6th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.30, Jan 29th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.29, Jan 13th, 2020
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.27, Oct 22nd, 2019
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.23, Sep 18th, 2019
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.17, Jul 10th, 2019
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.15, Jun 4th, 2019
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.13, May 22nd, 2019
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.26.10, April 1st 2019
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.25.56, March 13th 2018
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, August 23, 2016
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, June 29, 2016
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.25.26, February 5, 2016
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.23.7, October 7, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.22.10, August 1, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.21.14, June 17, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.21.12, June 6, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.20.22, March 24, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • v1.19.32, February 26, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
  • Additional resources
  • Disclaimer

Persistent connections¶

By default, the API supports persistent connections via HTTP/1.1 keepalives. All connections are kept alive unless the connection header is set to close.

To prevent abuse, HTTP sessions have a timeout of 30 seconds before being closed.

Note

The server can close the connection at any time, and clients should not rely on this behavior.

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