Scaling persistent connections for cloud computing

A method for scaling persistent connections for cloud computing, comprising:

• intercepting a data packet of a plurality of data packets to extract connection information of a first connection between a cloud server and a client computing device, wherein the first connection is a secure connection;
• after determining an activity threshold of the client computing device is not satisfied, closing a server portion of the first connection by using the connection information to send a close command to the cloud server;
• decrypting a keepalive signal using a premaster secret encrypted using a server certificate of the cloud server and in response to the keepalive signal from the client computing device, using the connection information to send a keepalive response to the client computing device to maintain a client portion of the first connection;
• and
• in response to a service request from the client computing device, closing a client portion of the first connection, wherein the client computing device initiates a second connection with the cloud server to process the service request.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor for scaling persistent connections for cloud computing, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

• intercept a data packet of a plurality of data packets to extract connection information of a first connection between an extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP) server and a printing device, wherein the first connection is a secure connection;
• close a server portion of the first connection by using the connection information to send a close command to the XMPP server;
• decrypt a keepalive signal using a premaster secret encrypted using a server certificate of the XMPP server, and in response to the keepalive signal from the printing device, use the connection information to send a keepalive response to the printing device to maintain a client portion of the first connection;
• and
• in response to a service request from the printing device, close a client portion of the first connection, wherein the printing device initiates a second connection with the XMPP server to process the service request.