Bug 57069

Summary: apache ssl timeout during chunked request in reverse balanced proxy setup
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Valentin Kuznetsov <vkuznet>
Component: mod_sslAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal Keywords: MassUpdate
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.2.29   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X 10.4   

Description Valentin Kuznetsov 2014-10-08 16:15:47 UTC 
Hi, we're trying to solve very mysterious problem with apache frontend serving as reverse proxy for our CouchDB back-end servers. In production we have apache 2.2.25 version with the following configuration settings [1]. It correctly redirects traffic to our CouchDB backend (version 1.1). When we try new version of CouchDB (version 1.5, 1.6) we see timeouts in back-end log and our replication process does not proceed. The difference in CouchDB replication between different version is that latest ones rely on "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" while former does not. We enabled dumpio module in apache to get a snapshot of the traffic and what we see is replication process in progress, but it is aborted due to SSL timeout. Here [2] you can see server part of this process (I stripped off sensitive parts). I tried various apache proxy settings (proxy-sendchunks, etc) but nothing helps, except if I'll turn on downgrade-1.0. Using this option the replication works. Moreover, we did tested apache 2.4 and it works too without any tweaking. I also tested that problem exists with latest apache 2.2.29 version. I would appreciate any help/suggestions on how to debug this issue.
Thanks,
Valentin.

[1] https://gist.github.com/vkuznet/cd8338f8a309ae788142
[2] https://gist.github.com/vkuznet/8bb84a31eb5e40b0e255
Comment 1 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:09:53 UTC 
Please help us to refine our list of open and current defects; this is a mass update of old and inactive Bugzilla reports which reflect user error, already resolved defects, and still-existing defects in httpd.

As repeatedly announced, the Apache HTTP Server Project has discontinued all development and patch review of the 2.2.x series of releases. The final release 2.2.34 was published in July 2017, and no further evaluation of bug reports or security risks will be considered or published for 2.2.x releases. All reports older than 2.4.x have been updated to status RESOLVED/LATER; no further action is expected unless the report still applies to a current version of httpd.

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