We do an https POST to a particular windows host several thousand times each day. About one out of every 300 requests results in a server error, which status_line say's is an ssl read timeout. It is in fact timing out from what I can tell because it returns right after 180 seconds has passed. The normal response time on a post is 1.5 seconds.
The windows host we are posting to is a credit card processor called Vital. They are the ones that payment gateways like Verisign send their transactions to. I'm inclined to think that this is a bug in libwww, one of the SSL modules, or openssl itself. One out of 300 transactions is a fairly high failure rate for someone like Vital not to notice. So, what is a good way to debug this problem and find the source? I'm already using LWP::DebugFile but it doesn't show me anything interesting. Chris
