Hello,

I've had some strange slowness/timeouts with Pound and IE/Mozilla 
(Windows XP) requesting an Apache 2 server with keepalive on.

Is this a known problem, or only I was such a lamer to think this solved 
my headache and it will resurface again?

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On Friday 05 December 2003 17:40, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've had some strange slowness/timeouts with Pound and IE/Mozilla
> (Windows XP) requesting an Apache 2 server with keepalive on.
>
> Is this a known problem, or only I was such a lamer to think this solved
> my headache and it will resurface again?

Some more details - what happened, what do you think caused it, etc...
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Robert Segall
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Tel: +41-1-920 4904

Robert Segall wrote:
>>I've had some strange slowness/timeouts with Pound and IE/Mozilla
>>(Windows XP) requesting an Apache 2 server with keepalive on.
> Some more details - what happened, what do you think caused it, etc...
It seems that it may be totally unrelated to Pound. I thought that it 
causes the problems that without Pound (but with HTTP) the servers were 
fast and there were no problems. When I switched to Pound with the same 
servers, problems arose.
The one thing I did not take account that without Pound it was plain 
HTTP, and with it it was HTTPS, and Pound did the crypto.

It seems that the problem is at the browsers, at least I found a link:
http://www.horde.org/faq/admin/trouble/index.php#t29 about this.

I don't really know what the problem really is, because on two Windows 
XPs the first was not working with keepalive on (neither mozilla or IE 
did) and on the second, with the same version of the softwares was OK.

Turning keepalive off solved the problem, now everything is fast and 
reliable.

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OK, now I understand what is it that you talk about (keep alive is also a TCP 
option, therefore the confusion).

I think you want to look at the NoHTTPS11 configuration option. Basically it 
tells Pound not to do HTTP 1.1 over SSL connections regardless of what the 
browser wants, and was intended exactly as a work-around for this problem.
-- 
Robert Segall
Apsis GmbH
Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707
Tel: +41-1-920 4904

Robert Segall wrote:
> OK, now I understand what is it that you talk about (keep alive is also a TCP

> option, therefore the confusion).
Sorry, it is my fault if it wasn't clear.

> I think you want to look at the NoHTTPS11 configuration option. Basically it 
> tells Pound not to do HTTP 1.1 over SSL connections regardless of what the 
> browser wants, and was intended exactly as a work-around for this problem.
Great, I will check this out.

It seems that Pound has the best user support among free softwares ;)
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Free Software Network (FSN.HU)           phone (at)work: +361 210 1415/127
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