We definitely do not see one. But I'm still a bit confused as to how Jetty
is determining that it wants to close the connection. Although our JAX-RS
resource throws an exception, that exception should be handled by the
JAX-RS runtime and not propagated to Jetty (We have ExceptionMappers
defined for everything). So our application is generating the response and
not Jetty itself.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:49 AM Greg Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Thomas,
>
> I see a connection:close header when the connection is closed after
> sending a 400 or 500.
>
> However, nothing is sent if the connection is closed due to an abort while
> giving up reading unconsumed content, which can happen before/during/after
> a response hence we keep that simple.
>
> So are you sure you are seeing a 400/500 response without connection:close
> ?
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 14:33, Greg Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> It is more about how the response was generated and less about the
>> response code itself.
>> If the application throws and exception to Jetty during request handling,
>> we now always make the connection non persistent before trying to send a
>> response. If the request input is terminated early or is not fully consumed
>> and would block, then we also abort the connection.
>>
>> Interesting that you say we don't set the Connection: close header.
>> There is actually no requirement to do so as the server can close a
>> connection at any time, but I thought we would do so as a courtesy....
>> checking....
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 10:25, Tommy Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Greg. Just so I’m clear, what does Jetty key on to know whether
>>> to close the connection? Just the 4xx/5xx response code? I’m trying to
>>> understand the difference between this case and the “normal unconsumed
>>> input” case you describe. Also, I did notice that Jetty does not set the
>>> Connection: close header when it does this, is that intentional?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 25, 2018, at 6:37 PM, Greg Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas,
>>>
>>> There is no configuration to avoid this behaviour.  If jetty sees and
>>> exception in the application it will send the 400 and close the connection.
>>>
>>> However, as Simone says, your application can be setup to avoid this
>>> situation by catching the exception and consuming any input.  You can do
>>> this in a filter that catches Throwable, it can then check the request
>>> input stream (and/or reader) for unconsumed input and read & discard to end
>>> of file.   If the response is not committed, it can then send a 400 or any
>>> other response that you like.
>>>
>>> Just remember that this may make your application somewhat vulnerable to
>>> DOS attacks as it will be easy to hold a thread in that filter slowly
>>> consuming data.  I would suggest imposing a total time and total data limit
>>> on the input consumption.
>>>
>>> Note that for normal unconsumed input, jetty 9.4 does make some attempt
>>> to consume it... but if the reading of that data would block, it gives up
>>> and closes the connection, as there is no point blocking for data that will
>>> be discarded.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 07:35, Thomas Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks so much again for your response, this is great information. What
>>>> you say makes sense, but I now see I failed to mention the most critical
>>>> part of this problem. Which is that the client never actually sees the 400
>>>> response we are sending from Jetty. When varnish sees the RST, it considers
>>>> the backend request failed and returns 503 Service Unavailable to the
>>>> client, effectively swallowing our application’s response. We can pursue a
>>>> solution to this on the Varnish side, but in the interim I’m guessing there
>>>> is no way to configure this behavior in Jetty?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 25, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Simone Bordet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:34 PM Tommy Becker <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Update: we setup an environment with the old Jetty 9.2 code and this
>>>> does not occur. 9.2 does not send the FIN in #5 above, and seems happy to
>>>> receive the rest of the content, despite having sent a response already.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:01 AM Tommy Becker <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your response. I managed to snag a tcp dump of what's going
>>>> on in this scenario. From what I can see the sequence of events is the
>>>> following. Recall that our Jetty server is fronted by a Varnish cache.
>>>>
>>>> 1) Varnish sends the headers and initial part of the content for a
>>>> large POST.
>>>> 2) On the Jetty server, we use a streaming parser and begin validating
>>>> the content.
>>>> 3) We detect a problem with the content and throw an exception that
>>>> results in a 400 Bad Request to the client (via JAX-RS exception mapper)
>>>> 4) An ACK is sent for the segment containing the 400 error.
>>>> 5) The Jetty server sends a FIN.
>>>> 6) An ACK is sent for the FIN
>>>> 7) Varnish sends another segment that continues the content from #1.
>>>> 8) The Jetty server sends a RST.
>>>>
>>>> In the server logs, we see an Early EOF from our JAX-RS resource that
>>>> is parsing the content. This all seems pretty ok from the Jetty side, and
>>>> it certainly seems like Varnish is misbehaving here (I'm thinking it may be
>>>> this bug https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/2332).
>>>> But I'm still unclear as to why this started after our upgrade from Jetty
>>>> 9.2 -> 9.4. Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is normal.
>>>> In Jetty 9.4 we are more aggressive in closing the connection because
>>>> we don't want to be at the mercy of a possible nasty client sending us
>>>> GiB of data when we know the application does not want to handle them.
>>>> Varnish behavior is correct too: it sees the FIN from Jetty but does
>>>> not know that Jetty does not want to read until it tries to send more
>>>> content and gets a RST.
>>>> At that point, it should relay the RST (or FIN) back to the client.
>>>>
>>>> So you have 2 choices: you catch the exception during your validation,
>>>> and finish to read (and discard) the content in the application; or
>>>> you ignore the early EOFs in the logs.
>>>> I don't think that those early EOFs are logged above DEBUG level, is
>>>> that correct?
>>>>
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