Hello Maxim, thanks a lot for your explanation. I've (kind off) solved the problem for now.
I was testing with another proxy in between nginx and the Jetty server to see whether that would behave differently. I just used Twitter's finagle, which is based on Netty and got a few error messages like this: 18.09.2013 11:59:58 com.twitter.finagle.builder.SourceTrackingMonitor handle FATAL: A server service unspecified threw an exception com.twitter.finagle.ChannelClosedException: ChannelException at remote address: localhost/127.0.0.1:8082 at com.twitter.finagle.NoStacktrace(Unknown Source) So I tried to dig deeper on the Jetty side of things. In the end, I just upgraded the web application running inside of Jetty and this solved the problem. Maybe I should make this a reflex: first update everything to the latest version before even trying to understand the problem, but that's not so easy to do in general... Thanks again! Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,242919,243005#msg-243005 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx