I didn't actually look too closely to the tcpdump till a few minutes later and 
noticed the issue is caused by jetpack. I got a ticket open with them now. I 
can see why Varnish decided to throw a 503.

On Feb 1, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Jason Heffner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I attached a tcpdump since a curl isn't practical; I would need to include 
> cookies and the the correct string parameters to simulate the same action. 
> 
> http://pastebin.com/3GHYFUwD
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:55 PM, "Rangel, Raul" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> What does the backend log look like?
>> 
>> In the log it shows 
>>   16 FetchError   c http format error
>> 
>> What does curl show if you do the same request?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Heffner
>> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 10:34 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Varnish 3.0.3 http error
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been through some of the archives on the list and have seen some 
>> similar problems. I was wondering if anyone can tell why this particular 
>> HTTP error might be caused? I also contacted the jetpack developers since it 
>> is their plugin returning the HTTP error from apache on the backend. If 
>> varnish is taken out of the setup the 302 redirect returned from apache 
>> functions properly. I can recreate the issue on a development system, and 
>> all other page loads are fine. 
>> 
>> Our setup: RHEL6, Pound 2.6.2, Varnish 3.0.3, Apache 2.2.15, php-fpm 5.3.21
>> 
>> I'd welcome any advice.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>> 
>> varnishlog -d -c -m TxStatus:503
>>  16 ReqStart     c xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 45094 812364756
>>   16 RxRequest    c GET
>>   16 RxURL        c 
>> /wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack&action=authorize&_wpnonce=cec3b377a1&code=dhcULw6Zlg&state=2
>>   16 RxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
>>   16 RxHeader     c Host: somesite.psu.edu
>>   16 RxHeader     c User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; 
>> rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
>>   16 RxHeader     c Accept: 
>> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
>>   16 RxHeader     c Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
>>   16 RxHeader     c Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
>>   16 RxHeader     c Cookie: 
>> __utma=165035810.2146825052.1359667423.1359667423.1359672023.2; 
>> __utmc=165035810; 
>> __utmz=165035810.1359667423.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);
>>  bp-activity-oldestpage=1; __qca=P0-1744595654-1359667424495; 
>> bp-activity-scope=all; bp
>>   16 RxHeader     c Connection: keep-alive
>>   16 RxHeader     c X-Forwarded-For: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>>   16 VCL_call     c recv pass
>>   16 VCL_call     c hash
>>   16 Hash         c 
>> /wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack&action=authorize&_wpnonce=cec3b377a1&code=dhcULw6Zlg&state=2
>>   16 Hash         c somesite.psu.edu
>>   16 VCL_return   c hash
>>   16 VCL_call     c pass pass
>>   16 Backend      c 14 default_director web1
>>   16 FetchError   c http format error
>>   16 VCL_call     c error deliver
>>   16 VCL_call     c deliver deliver
>>   16 TxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
>>   16 TxStatus     c 503
>>   16 TxResponse   c Service Unavailable
>>   16 TxHeader     c Server: Varnish
>>   16 TxHeader     c Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
>>   16 TxHeader     c Retry-After: 5
>>   16 TxHeader     c Content-Length: 418
>>   16 TxHeader     c Accept-Ranges: bytes
>>   16 TxHeader     c Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:46:08 GMT
>>   16 TxHeader     c Age: 3
>>   16 TxHeader     c Connection: close
>>   16 TxHeader     c X-Cache: MISS
>>   16 Length       c 418
>>   16 ReqEnd       c 812364756 1359672365.351407051 1359672368.171207428 
>> 1.863311291 2.819756508 0.000043869
>> 
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