Greetings,

We have Squid 2.5 STABLE2 installed.  When we submit a login HTML form from our web 
application, all of the HTTP POST data is sent in a single TCP/IP packet from the 
browser's TCP/IP stack.  After it traverses Squid, the data portion of the POST is 
continued into another packet.  

The problem occurs because the continued packet seems to cause a deadlock condition.  
The web server expects additional information from the TCP/IP stream which is in the 
continued packet.  The browser sent a single packet, so it is waiting on the web 
server.  Eventually, the web server times out with an HTTP 408.

We checked RFC 2616 (HTTP) and there are no provisions for this situation, which I 
expect because it appears to be a TCP/IP issue.  It also appears that either the web 
server is confused or the operating systems TCP/IP demultiplexer is confused.  We 
don't think it's a proxy issue, but thought we would ask here to confirm.

We appreciate any other suggestions.  I can post the TCP/IP dumps from each interface 
point if that is helpful.

Thanks for your time.
Jeff



Jeffery Cann
Senior System Engineer
Technology Engineering
Standard & Poor's
7400 South Alton Court
Centennial, CO 80112
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