On Wed, Mar 17, 1999, Mats Josefsson wrote:
> Maybe this info can help in finding a solution to the POST and/or Apache
> hang problem.
>
> We are using a Java based client doing POSTs to a Apache/mod_ssl/Jserv
> server. The client uses bothe SSL session reuse and HTTP Keep-Alive
> (just
> like the Netscape browser). The problems seemed to be related to the use
> of Keep-Alive.
>
> At one time we experienced the following problems:
>
> * Apache would close the connection unexpectedly, often in the middle
> of the (n'th) output phase. (The close notify was sent, but the
> channel
> was closed too early).
>
> * Sometimes Apache processes would hang, not responding, but using all
> available cpu.
>
> I did not find out why Apache did this, but I found out how to avoid it.
> Our client had a bug causing it to send a few bytes more than the
> "Content-Length:" header said. Wen we fixed that, both Apache problems
> went away.
That's _VERY_ interesting. This would explain the problems and the fact why I
cannot find the reason although I've tried to trace it down more than once now
with s_client. Hmmm.... seems like I've to check the request Netscape sends to
the server byte by byte... thanks for the hint.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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