If you can reproduce. Chould you try wireshark to do a packet capture? I would like to see what is going on. Tim is a new dad and has not been responsive. I will try an attempt to fix this myself (although I cannot repcoduce it) else we wil revert to cherrypy.
On Tuesday, 26 June 2012 07:04:15 UTC-5, Álvaro José Iradier wrote: > > Hi, > > I am developing an application that needs to return a big report page, > with a lot of data. We were testing the application using the integrated > rocket server, and the report was working correctly when accessing the app > on the local network. > > However, when connection from the outside via a DSL router, making a NAT > to the web2py http server, the response page gets truncated after about > 15-30 seconds (could not determine an exact period). The browser stops > receiving data, and the page is truncated. Capturing traffic with wireshark > shows the remote end is finishing the connection (FIN flag set) before > sending all data, but the Content-Length header was correctly set to a > higher value. > > The problem dissapears when running web2py with lighttpd via FastCGI. > > The truncate problem also dissapears if instead of accessing directly to > the web server, we make a SSH tunnel to the Linux machine hosting the > web2py application, and requesting the report though the tunnel, but > probably the SSH tunnel is retrieving the full page, then buffering it > through the tunnel. > > Has anybody hit the same problem? It there a maximum response time for > rocket server? I found there is a maximum request time, but the request is > being processed quite fast, less than 1 second. The problem is *sending* > the response, which is getting longer. > > Thanks. > > --
