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Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 44334]  - mod_proxy_ajp with POST retry doesn't
 send request body
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Date: Sat,  2 Feb 2008 08:50:06 -0800 (PST)

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------- Additional Comments From rpluem@apache.org  2008-02-02 08:50 -------
You are correct that there is bug here, but the bug is different from what you
expect. mod_proxy_balancer should not even try to sent the failed request to a
different member of the cluster. This is because:

1. A POST request is non idempotent and thus it is not allowed to resend it 
   without user confirmation once its sending had started (RFC2616 8.1.4 / 9.1.2).

2. Your request contains a request body. httpd handles request bodies as streams
   and does not store them. This means once it has sent it to a Tomcat it is gone
   and cannot be sent again to another Tomcat as httpd does not have its data
   available any longer.

This is now fixed in trunk by r617822 (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=617822
&view=rev). Nevertheless the problem you see will persist even with this patch.
The only possibility to avoid this would be waiting to connect / send headers
until there is request body data available, but this does not make sense for
most other people. So I fear the only solution to your problem is to increase
the value for connectionTimeout on Tomcat to something like 4 seconds or to fix
your client to send the request body immediately.

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