Based on Mark Thomas' recommendation in another thread, I've upgraded to tomcat 7.0.11 and the issues I was seeing seem to be fixed.
This seems to be the relevant changelog entry: "Fix issues that prevented asynchronous servlets from working when used with the HTTP APR connector on platforms that support TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT. (markt)" Thanks all for your comments and suggestions. - Chris On March 11, 2011 05:04:07 pm Christopher Schultz wrote: > André, > > On 3/11/2011 4:45 PM, André Warnier wrote: > > Chris wrote: > >> 1. Yes, tomcat is sending the header: "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" > >> 2. I've also tried using close() instead of flush() and I've seen the > >> same chunked encoding. > >> 3. The nginx reverse proxying with the HttpProxyModule only supports > >> HTTP/1.0 according to the "Synopsis" section here: > >> http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpProxyModule > >> > >> Based on my reading of the HTTP spec, closing the connection seems to > >> be a valid alternative to sending the terminating "0\r\n\r\n". > >> Any ideas about why the connection wouldn't be closed when using APR? > >> > > I can't say exactly what, but something else also nagged at me when > > reading the original post : as I recall, HTTP 1.0 also does not support > > "keep-alive" connections. > > Would there not be some invalid combination of request from the client > > for a keep-alive connection together with a HTTP 1.0 protocol, or with a > > setting at the Connector side ? > > Maybe some code is getting confused at some invalid combination ? > > Unlikely. nginx should allow the client to use keepalive, but then use > 1.0-spec semantics when connecting to the backend. > > That seems like a good reason to use something other than nginx to me. > > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
