ClientAbortException for GWT RPC request received from IE through an AJP Apache proxy

Issue

• We have GWT clients sending RPC calls to JBoss through an httpd proxy over ajp. We see the following exception at times:

ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/app]] (ajp-127.0.0.1-8009-8) Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call
04-10 12:50:14,177 ERROR [stderr] ClientAbortException:  java.io.IOException: JBWEB002011: Socket read failed
04-10 12:50:14,178 ERROR [stderr]   at org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.realReadBytes(InputBuffer.java:351)
04-10 12:50:14,178 ERROR [stderr]   at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.substract(ByteChunk.java:422)
04-10 12:50:14,179 ERROR [stderr]   at org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.read(InputBuffer.java:373)
04-10 12:50:14,179 ERROR [stderr]   at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream.read(CoyoteInputStream.java:162)
04-10 12:50:14,180 ERROR [stderr]   at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPCServletUtils.readContent(RPCServletUtils.java:175)