This could be due to DNS. MAYBE--> Somewhere along the line, a reverse DNS lookup is
being
initiated. If your client dns name does not have a reverse entry, the query timeout
may explain
this problem.
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> I'm in charge of deploying an application which uses HTTP-tunneling
> to go through firewalls.
> With one of our clients we experience strange behavior :
> it seems that opening an HTTP connexion sometimes take a very
> long time (20s to 1 mn) but in general once the connexion is opened
> then the download times are very short (often 30Kbytes/s) : that's
> fine for big files but awful for an application which open/close lot of
> HTTP connexions.
>
> Is such a behavior possible ?
> How du u explain it ?
>
> Our client can't tell us about his firewall/proxy configuration
> because his network administrators don't want to deliver informations
> about that. All we now is that there's a proxy and a firewall, the
> bandwidth is 1Mb, and the Internet access is shared by about 300 users.
>
> Any idea ?
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