[ic] SocketReadTimeout question
Peter
peter at pajamian.dhs.org
Tue Feb 5 18:50:39 EST 2008
On 02/05/2008 03:39 PM, Grant wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any more info on why SocketReadTimeout came into
>>> being? Is it designed to solve some broken pipe problems?
>> One of the core developers discovered that there are some ssl proxy
>> servers on a particular ISP that take longer to respond than the
>> (previously hard-coded) 1 second default. If you have this problem with
>> some of your customers then setting this value to something higher than
>> 5 or so will allow those proxy servers to work. On the downside it can
>> also make IC more vulnerable to a certain type of DOS attack so you
>> shouldn't adjust this unless you really need to.
>>
>> Peter
>
> Thanks Peter. How would that type of problem make itself known? ssl_error_log?
According to
http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/icdocs/config/SocketReadTimeout.html
you would get read errors in your global error.log file.
Peter
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