Hello: I'm using a HTTP server Apache/2.2.15 (Unix), as frontend and Tomcat 6.0.23 as backend server. Both of them running on the same machine ( Linux CentOS 6.3) Apache HTTP listens on 8080 and Tomcat server listens on 8081 Apache HTTP server configuration is setted up like <VirtualHost *:8080> ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot /var/www/html ServerName www.company.es ServerAlias company.es ProxyPass / http://localhost:8081/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8081/ LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined LogFormat "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" proxy:%h" proxy SetEnvIf X-Forwarded-For "^.*\..*\..*\..*" client-ip-request CustomLog /var/log/httpd/company-access_log combined env=!client-ip-request CustomLog /var/log/httpd/company-access_log proxy env=client-ip-request ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/company-error_log </VirtualHost> And Tomcat's server.xml configuration file has defined <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 --> <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" /> >From time to time, I get this error message in Apache HTTP log files [Thu Feb 14 11:11:26 2013] [error] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: proxy: prefetch request body failed to [::1]:8081 (localhost) from xx.xx.xx.xx () In the Apache HTTP server's access log , I see that xx.xx.xx.xx - - [14/Feb/2013:11:10:26 +0100] "POST /mycompany/doMyAction.dwr HTTP/1.1" 400 307 (Note: Failed URL is not always the same and former failed URLs don't always fail ) **Look at the time and response error code**: there is an 400 HTTP response error code ( Bad request ) after 60 seconds ( when "The timeout specified has expired: proxy: prefetch request body failed" error is thrown ) When this error happens , Tomcat's access logs don't show any access message, so I guess that the request doesn't arrive to Tomcat server ( remember , at the same machine) I don't know how I could to debug more . I would like to use tcpdump but the error occurs randomly and I don't know what parameters to use with tcpdump . Is it a reported bug ? Is there any W/A ? What could I monitorize/watch ? Thanks and regards --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx