Bug ID 1080569: BIG-IP prematurely closes clientside HTTP1.1 connection when serverside is HTTP2 and HTTP MRF router is enabled on virtual server

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5

Fixed In:
17.1.0, 16.1.4, 15.1.9

Opened: Feb 14, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When clientside is using HTTP1.1, serverside is using HTTP2 and two HTTP GET requests are sent by the client, BIG-IP completes the first HTTP transaction and sends a FIN, even though HTTP keepalive should be enabled.

Impact

Premature TCP connection termination on the clientside.

Conditions

-- HTTP2 full proxy is configured i.e. http profile, http2 profile and MRF router is enabled. As per https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-1-0/big-ip-http2-full-proxy-configuration-14-1-0/http2-full-proxy-configuring.html -- clientside uses HTTP1.1. -- serverside uses HTTP2. -- Two subsequent GET requests are sent by the client.

Workaround

Disable the MRF router (httprouter). The drawback is that serverside will always use HTTP1.1 in this case and it might be undesirable if you want to leverage HTTP2.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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