https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66120

            Bug ID: 66120
           Summary: j_security_check returns 408 if j_security_check
                    request lands on different tomcat server from the
                    original server
           Product: Tomcat 9
           Version: 9.0.30
          Hardware: PC
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
          Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
          Reporter: s.packia...@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: -----

Setup:
1. Have two tomcat instances and session back-up with Memcached for failover.
2. Use FormAuthenticator for authentication 

Scenario:
1. render login form from TC-instance-1
2. submit login form request (j_security_check) to TC-instance-2 ( to simulate
tomcat fail-over or load balancer routes the request to other instance for any
reason )

Observation: 
TC-instance-2 returns 408 

Addition information:
>From commit
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/fd381e94f222831fd2bee697deb6246d417b8f33
form authenticator expects session id from session-note, 
Session note being transient, it’s not serialized, not backed up by backup
manager. This result into session is set to expire/null and cascading 408 error

With modern infrastructure failure is expected (like pod/node eviction
[Kubernetes HPA trashing] or load balancers consistent hashing algorithm
changes sticky ness ) so the failover is more frequent

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