Re: connection reset mystery

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:58:18 -0700

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Iain Lamb wrote:

> My fellow squid'ers,
>
> I am trying to track down/fix a subtle problem I'm having - I'm
> wondering if anyone out there has any suggestions. A configuration
> setting I might tweak? A way to figure out what is going wrong?
>
> THE PROBLEM:
>
> Clients with low bandwitdh sporadically get this message:
>
> "The connection with the server was reset"
>
> when POST'ing to one particular cgi script on our site.

It might be helpful to run tcpdump on the cache.

One way to get a reset is for the client to send more data
after the server (or in this case proxy) has closed
the connection. I think some browsers might send an
extra "CRLF" pair at the end of their POST request, which
could be the cause.

Duane W.
Received on Wed Dec 01 1999 - 16:06:09 MST

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