[Haskell-cafe] thread killed

[Michael Snoyman]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Gregory Collins
<greg at gregorycollins.net> wrote:
> +haskell-cafe, oops
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:09 PM, tsuraan <tsuraan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > It's hard to rule Snap timeouts out; try building snap-core with the
>>> > "-fdebug" flag and running your app with "DEBUG=1", you'll get a spew
>>> > of
>>> > debugging output from Snap on stderr.
>>>
>>> Heh, that was quite a spew.  I normally get the exceptions tens of MB
>>> into files that are hundreds of MB, and I sometimes don't get them at
>>> all, so printing out the entire request body was a bit slow :)  After
>>> commenting out some of the more talkative debug statements, I got the
>>> exception to happen, and it looks generally like this:
>>
>>
>> I think I might know what your problem is. You're accepting file uploads
>> using handleMultipart, yes? Snap kills uploads that are going too slow,
>> otherwise you would be vulnerable to slowloris
>> (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/) DoS attacks. What's probably happening here
>> is that you're doing slow work inside the "Iteratee IO a" handler you pass
>> to that function, which makes Snap think the client is trickling bytes to
>> you. If that's the case, either finish the iteratee more quickly and do the
>> slow work back in the Snap handler (preferable), or disable the minimum
>> upload rate guard (although that's not recommended on a server talking to
>> the public internet.)

Wouldn't it make more sense to pause the timeout handler when running
user code? That's what we do in Warp.

Michael