Created attachment 25836 [details] Captured packets (can be opened by tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.) Symptom: If the (forward-)proxy receives "Connection: Keep-alive" request from client, it sends "Connection: Keep-alive" to the origin server as well. But the proxy closes the connection to the origin server immediately after it receives the response (or after it sends response to the client). [Initially found on 2.2.11 and confirmed with 2.2.16] The possible negative impact of the symptom: The origin server would expect the upcoming HTTP request in the persistent connection. So the sudden close of connection may cause a confusion on the origin server. Workaround: If the Keep-alive to the origin server is disabled ("SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive" in httpd.conf), then there is no chance that the proxy confuses the origin server with "Connection: Keep-alive". However, I don't know how can we enable Keep-alive (without immediate closing the connection) to the origin server. How to reproduce: 1. Turn on forward proxy feature with the following httpd.conf, and run httpd. --- ProxyRequests On <Proxy *> Allow from all </Proxy> --- 2. Run tcpdump (or anything equivalent) to monitor the packets. # tcpdump -i any -s 0 -w 0.cap tcp port 80 3. Use telnet to send a request: $ telnet localhost 80 GET http://httpd.apache.org:80/ HTTP/1.1 Host: httpd.apache.org:80 Connection: Keep-Alive
The connection seems closed indirectly through apr_pool_clear(), in the ap_proxy_release_connection() of proxy_util.c --- 1665 if (conn->close_on_recycle || conn->close || worker->disablereuse || 1666 !worker->is_address_reusable) { 1667 apr_pool_t *p = conn->pool; 1668 apr_pool_clear(p); --- At the line 1665, according to the debugger, conn->close_on_recycle == 0, conn->close == 0, worker->disablereuse == 0, worker->is_address_reusable == 0. I wonder why 'is_address_reusable' is set to 0, since I have not configured anything special to prohibit the reuse of the opened connection.
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