Re: Haproxy and Ajax / HXR Post

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 06:58:21AM +0200, Baptiste wrote:
> 2011/10/9 Andreas Bergman <andreas#sea-ab.se>:
> > Hi All,
> > Earlier today we tried a emergency, not pre-tested LB solution for a
> > customer, needless to say this didn't go very well.
> > The LB part worked well, and most of the functions worked well, but among
> > those who didn't work at all were Ajax HXR requests used to upload photos
> > and registering to the site.
> > We did a rollback and the site now works somewhat well.
> > But, we need to figure out why the HXRs and most POST requests didn't work.
> > I've seen in some threads that the HXR requests lacks a length header and
> > therefore Nginx chokes and sends a 405/403.
> > The setup used is Haproxy, Varnish and Nginx, but when we removed varnish it
> > didn't work either, but using only varnish and Nginx works, but Haproxy and
> > Nginx doesn't, that leads to the conclusion that it is something with HXR
> > and Haproxy, probably a config-issue or something related to the HXR header.
> > Any ideas? The config we used was pretty straightforward, we used keep alive
> > thats it. (The LB machine is reinstalled so i haven' got the config anymore)
> > Br
> > Andreas Bergman
>
> Hi,
>
> Maybe you enabled "option http-server-close" or "option http-close".
>
> In order to troubleshoot, we need at least the config and the logs :)
> Can you re-install an HAProxy and run some test again and share with
> us your config and the generated logs?
>
> Note: you can do that out of production, just make HAProxy listen on
> an "exotic" port and point your own browser on it.

Alternatively, a network capture of some of these XHR requests would help because we could try to reproduce on development code.

Regards,
Willy Received on 2011/10/15 08:18