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weird timeouts sometimes with lighttpd 1.4.20 on NetBSD-4, Firefox 3.0.x, and apcupsd-3.14.3's upsstats.cgi

Added by woods over 15 years ago

since configuring and testing lighttpd 1.4.20 on NetBSD-4.x with apcupsd-3.14.3's CGI web interface, I've noticed that sometimes, perhaps even half the time, the tab I have the upsstats.cgi script (which auto-reloads itself) has a spinning "loading" indicator.

Examining the lighttpd error log shows regular "timed out after writing" errors.

This doesn't always happen though. Often enough the reload works normally and the reload finishes as quickly as one expects it should.

Presumably the client (Firefox 3.0.x in this case) is not reading everything that the server and/or CGI program is trying to write? Is that what's happening?

How do I figure out what's going on?