Connection limits

The proxy protects itself with limits on the number of connections and on the time that each one waits.

TLS handshake. The client has 10 seconds to complete the TLS handshake.

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The time limits of one connection

The proxy protects itself with connection limits. You cannot change them.

The limits

Limit	Value
Open connections	From the open-file limit, at most 10,000
Connections for each client address	256
TLS handshake	10 s
First request head, and each next one on an HTTP/1 connection	30 s
Idle connection with no request in progress	60 s (5 s while the proxy is at its connection limit)
Pause in a request body	60 s, then `408`

A timeout of the proxy never cuts an answer in progress. See WebSockets, SSE and HTTP/2.

WebSockets, SSE and HTTP/2

The proxy passes WebSockets and streamed answers. It always uses HTTP/1.1 with your app.

Environment & env groups

A service gets its variables from Ferry, from env groups and from its own settings. Ferry resolves references at start.