id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1247	Nginx worker process closes connection and dies prematurely on http connections with keep_alive > 0	thatoneemail@…		"When clients send a request with a request header of ""Connection: keep-alive"" after/during a config refresh they get a TCP close instead of a response from the service nginx is forwarding to.

It seems that the worker decides it doesn't have any more work to do as soon as it sends it's most recent response back. Once it has no more work to do it closes the connection that is supposed to be ""kept-alive"".

I would think the nginx worker process should stay up as long as the keep_alive timeout has not been reached. This causes java clients to get an ""end of file"" while reading the response and results in a request error that potentially can not be retried (eg a POST).

"	defect	closed	major		nginx-core	1.11.x	duplicate	worker keep_alive	damian.curry@…	Linux nginx-ingress-controller-1410115559-9v9v5 4.4.0-53-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 15:59:10 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux	"nginx version: nginx/1.11.3
built by gcc 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2g-fips  1 Mar 2016
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_spdy_module --with-stream --with-stream_ssl_module --with-threads --with-file-aio --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_smtp_module --without-mail_imap_module --without-http_uwsgi_module --without-http_scgi_module --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --add-module=/tmp/build/ngx_devel_kit-0.3.0 --add-module=/tmp/build/set-misc-nginx-module-0.31 --add-module=/tmp/build/nginx-module-vts-0.1.10 --add-module=/tmp/build/lua-nginx-module-0.10.6 --add-module=/tmp/build/headers-more-nginx-module-0.31 --add-module=/tmp/build/nginx-goodies-nginx-sticky-module-ng-08a395c66e42 --add-module=/tmp/build/nginx-http-auth-digest-cc61b4a11526637a5b363014947d3d4df91badb2 --add-module=/tmp/build/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module-bc58cb11844bc42735bbaef7085ea86ace46d05b --add-module=/tmp/build/lua-upstream-nginx-module-0.06"