Comment 0 for bug 89160

From some particular web servers, a machine running feisty cannot get an HTTP response. However, machines running most other OSs can get an HTTP response. (However, the problem appears to affect Debian etch also.)

How to reproduce the problem:

Use wget or any web browser to try to retrieve the file from this URL:
 http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourweb/online.html

The client resolves the host, establishes a connection, and sends an HTTP request.
However, it receives no response. However, a client on other OSs besides feisty will
receive a response. In fact, a machine running dapper can get an HTTP response just fine.

Here is the output from wget:

*****begin transcript*****
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ wget -d http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourweb/online.html
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10.2 on linux-gnu.

--08:32:45-- http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourweb/online.html
           => `online.html'
Resolving www.ureg.ohio-state.edu... 128.146.64.104
Caching www.ureg.ohio-state.edu => 128.146.64.104
Connecting to www.ureg.ohio-state.edu|128.146.64.104|:80... connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x08093848 (new refcount 1).

---request begin---
GET /ourweb/online.html HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.10.2
Accept: */*
Host: www.ureg.ohio-state.edu
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Closed fd 3
*****end transcript*****

Now here is the output from a machine running Debian sarge:

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[sarge machine]$ wget -d http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourweb/online.html
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.9.1 on linux-gnu.

--21:41:41-- http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourweb/online.html
           => `online.html'
Resolving www.ureg.ohio-state.edu... 128.146.64.104
Caching www.ureg.ohio-state.edu => 128.146.64.104
Connecting to www.ureg.ohio-state.edu[128.146.64.104]:80... connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x80a60d0 (new refcount 1).
---request begin---
GET /ourweb/online.html HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1
Host: www.ureg.ohio-state.edu
Accept: */*
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 17686
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:22:14 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "3938fd93c1d8c61:91210"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:41:40 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

Length: 17,686 [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 17,686 105.31K/s

21:41:41 (105.28 KB/s) - `online.html' saved [17686/17686]
*****end transcript*****

(Incidentally, the site in question is of some importance since it is used by tens of thousands of students at a major public university.)

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Fri Mar 2 08:25:43 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux