This control the TCP level socket keep alive setting, not HTTP. In terms of
HTTP, elasticsearch supports keep alive setting, and won't close the socket
if using HTTP 1.1 (and no CLOSE in the header), or when using HTTP 1.0 with
keep alive header (according to the spec).
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