[users@httpd] Long request timeouts

[Steve Lane <sl...@moyergroup.com>]

All:

We're investigating issues with timeouts on some long PHP-generated reports
we create using PHP 4.1.2 on Apache 1.3.28. Our PHP and Apache timeout
values all seem high enough, about a half hour, and timeouts don't take 30
minutes to occur.

One thing we did find in one case was that disabling a firewall device
caused the timeouts to disappear.

Question: is it possible for intermediate TCP forwarding/filtering devices,
such as routers, firewalls, or proxy servers, to create behaviors wherein an
HTTP request would time out, where it otherwise would not have? In other
words, is it possible for devices other than the client and the server to
have a role in whether a timeout occurs?

Thanks,

Steve


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Steve Lane

Vice President
The Moyer Group
14 North Peoria St Suite 2H
Chicago, IL 60607

Voice: (312) 433-2421       Email: slane@moyergroup.com
Fax:   (312) 850-3930       Web:   http://www.moyergroup.com
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