Tomcat 5.5.14 running with the latest mod_jk (1.2.15) + Apache 2.2.0 causes bizarre 
and buggy behavior with request.getReader().

This does NOT happen if the same jsp is accessed directly via localhost:8080

Consider the following JSP (called hello.jsp):

---------------------------start -----------------------
hello world
<% 
out.println("2+2=" + (2+2)); 
out.print(request.getMethod());
out.print(" ");
out.print(request.getRequestURI());
String s = request.getQueryString();
if (s != null) {
	out.print("?");
	out.println(s);
	}
out.print("<br>PATH_INFO=" + request.getPathInfo());
out.print("<br>PATH_TRANSLATED=" + request.getPathInfo());
out.print("<br>SERVLET_PATH=" + request.getServletPath());
out.print("<br>QUERY_STRING=" + request.getQueryString());
%>

<h2>POST PARAMS</h2>
<%
java.io.Reader in = request.getReader();
int c = -1;
while ( (c = in.read()) != -1) {
	out.print((char)c);
	System.out.print((char)c);
	}
%>

-------------------------------- end ------------------------------

This results in the following time out and stack trace. This is because the reader returned
by request.getReader() DOES NOT return -1

-------------------------- start -------------------------------------------------
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception in JSP: /hello.jsp:22

19: <%
20: java.io.Reader in = request.getReader();
21: int c = -1;
22: while ( (c = in.read()) != -1) {
23: 	out.print((char)c);
24: 	System.out.print((char)c);
25: 	}


Stacktrace:
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:504)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:381)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
root cause

java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
	java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
	java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
	java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
	java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:256)
	java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:313)
	org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.read(ChannelSocket.java:607)
	org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.receive(ChannelSocket.java:545)
	org.apache.jk.common.JkInputStream.receive(JkInputStream.java:184)
	org.apache.jk.common.JkInputStream.doRead(JkInputStream.java:163)
	org.apache.coyote.Request.doRead(Request.java:423)
	org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.realReadBytes(InputBuffer.java:283)
	org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.realReadChars(InputBuffer.java:329)
	org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.CharChunk.substract(CharChunk.java:382)
	org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.read(InputBuffer.java:351)
	org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteReader.read(CoyoteReader.java:92)
	org.apache.jsp.hello_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.hello_jsp:64)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
---------------------------------- end -------------------------

Here is the mod_jk.conf file:

LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so
JkWorkersFile		/usr/local/tomcat/conf/worker.properties
JkLogFile			/usr/local/tomcat/logs/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel			info	
JkLogStampFormat 	"[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "
JkRequestLogFormat  "%s %w %V %T %s"
JkOptions     +ForwardURICompat
JkOptions     +ForwardDirectories
JkMount /*.jsp w1
JkMount /*/servlet/ w1
JkMount /*.page w1

And here is worker.properties:
worker.list=w1,jkstatus
worker.maintain=120
worker.w1.type=ajp13
worker.w1.host=localhost
worker.w1.port=8009
worker.w1.socket_timeout=120
worker.w1.recycle_timeout=500
worker.jkstatus.type=status