connectiontimout question

["Smith, Mitchell" <mitchell.smith@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Can someone please explain the implementation of connectiontimeout in a balancer member when using mod_proxy.

Is it, the time for the back end server to ack the basic http connection or to respond with data? 

I have an backend application that generates a pdf report, depending on the size of this report it can fail to return the pdf to the client. A sysadmin in a test environment has increased the connection timeout to 600seconds, which appears to allow the larger pdf reports to be returned, (But I guess also removes the failover of requests if a node is not available)

Thanks
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Mitchell

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