"Software caused connection abort" errors and 400s or 502s when proxying large cookies through httpd to JBoss

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When we proxy a request with larger cookies (7+ kb), we see 400 or 502 responses and errors like the following in httpd:
[error] (103)Software caused connection abort: proxy: pass request body failed to 127.0.0.1:8080 (localhost)

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP 6.x)
  • JBoss Web Server (JWS 3.x)
  • JBoss Core Services (JBCS 5.x) Apache httpd

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