Keep-alive for long-lived HTTP session (not persistent HTTP)

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At work, we have a client-server system where clients submit requests to a web server through HTTP. The server-side processing can sometimes take more than 60 seconds, which is the proxy timeout value set by our company's IT staff and cannot be changed. Is there a way to keep the HTTP connection alive for longer than 60 seconds (preferably for an arbitrarily long period of time), either by heartbeat messages from the server or the client?

I know there are HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, but that is not what I want.

Does HTTP have a keep-alive capability, or would this have to be done at the TCP level through some sort of socket option?

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