Bug ID 1024225: BIG-IP sends "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" to http/2 client after HEAD request

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6

Fixed In:
17.0.0, 16.1.2.2, 15.1.6.1, 14.1.5

Opened: Jun 09, 2021

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

BIG-IP proxying http2 -> http1.1. In response to a HEAD request, pool member sends response with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header without chunked payload. BIG-IP sends "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header back to http2 client which generates RST_STREAM, PROTOCOL_ERROR. According to RFC 7450 a proxy SHOULD remove such headers.

Impact

Http2 connection is reset

Conditions

1) H2 <-> H1 is configured on virtual server 2) HEAD request over http2->http1.1 gateway getting chunked response.

Workaround

iRule to remove "Transfer-Encoding: Chunked" header from response.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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