request stalled for a long time occasionally in chrome

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I once encountered a similar problem. The cause of the problem is that every browser has a limit to the maximum number of TCP connections to a server. For chrome, the limit is six. The problem is more prominent when you are using a proxy server, because all the requests go the same server (the proxy server).

Chrome doesn’t allow you to change this limit. It shouldn’t in fact. If you want to know more about why this limit exists, and what are the limits for other browsers, you can read this article.

The reason why this limit is rarely a problem is because multiple HTTP requests to the same host are mostly sent consecutively, rather than parallely, preferably over the same TCP connection.

If this problem occurs to you frequently, then the reason might be:

  1. Server doesn’t support persistent TCP connection: If the problem occurs only when accessing a particular server, the reason might be that chrome is fetching multiple resources (like images, CSS files, etc) on parallel connections. Since, in your case, the server is on your local network, you might want to ask the server’s administrator to add support for persistent TCP connections.

  2. Multiple persistent connections are open: If you are working behind a proxy server, then downloading multiple files simultaneously or opening sites which keep a TCP connection open might be the cause of your problem.To get rid of it, all you can do is to not download many things simultaneously (or download in a different browser, if you have to).

PS: The error net_error = -101 (ERR_CONNECTION_RESET) is not due to invalid headers, it is because of the timeout, waiting for some previous connection to the server to close.

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