Mike, What version of Jetty are you using?
Thanks, Michael On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Mike Pilone <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to use the ProxyServlet to create a simple frontend SSL proxy > and I'm seeing it hang on 304 responses from my backend. After about 30 > seconds the proxy returns with a gateway timeout error for the request. > > > > I did discover that the backend is setting a Content-Length header for the > 304 response so I'm assuming the problem is that the ProxyServlet is waiting > for the content, even though it will never be returned. I filed an issue > against Spring (the backend servlet) for setting the Content-Length header, > but I'm not convinced that it is all their fault. Based on my reading of RFC > 2616, both ends seem to behave incorrectly. > > > > RFC 2616 section 10.3.5 says, > > > > "If the conditional GET used a strong cache validator (see section 13.3.3), > the response SHOULD NOT include other entity-headers. Otherwise (i.e., the > conditional GET used a weak validator), the response MUST NOT include other > entity-headers; this prevents inconsistencies between cached entity-bodies > and updated headers." > > > > of course, RFC 2616 section 4.4 says, > > > > "Any response message which "MUST NOT" include a message-body (such as the > 1xx, 204, and 304 responses and any response to a HEAD request) is always > terminated by the first empty line after the header fields, regardless of > the entity-header fields present in the message." > > > > So, in either case (strong or weak validators), it seems like the backend > servlet should not be setting a Content-Length header because clients could > hang waiting for the content. However, clients should be smart enough to > ignore content-length header on a 304 by looking for the first empty line. > > > > From my googling, it looks like this is a reappearance of Jetty issue 283: > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-283. Looking at the code, the > ProxyServlet appears to have been rewritten and the bug reintroduced. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > -mike > > > > > > > > [image: *] | Mike Pilone | Software Architect, Distribution | > [email protected] | o: 202-513-2679 m: 703-969-7493 > > > > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users > >
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