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keith_varga_107
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Nov 01, 2013

New version of Chrome, and URL hangs through the F5

Hi DevCentral Team,   We have an interesting low priority anomaly on one of our web servers going through the F5 load balancer. We're running 10.2.3 build 123 HF1 (32bit) physical LB pair.   (1...
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IheartF5_45022
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Nov 04, 2013

Apparently there is a bug in the 10.2.3 firmware that causes it to hang when a client sends a Client Hello larger than 255 bytes, and I can confirm that when we access your site on the new Chrome you are using a Client Hello of less than 255 bytes but when I go to re-load it jumps up to 263 (for me anyway).

 

Here is some more info; https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=303398

 

Also I can confirm that we are running 10.2.4 on our websites and do not have the issue, so even though the release notes for 10.2.4 do not specifically address THIS issue, it may fix it.

 

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    IheartF5_45022
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    Nov 04, 2013
    and looks like your surmise re domain name length is correct too - it is a factor.
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    keith_varga_107
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    Nov 05, 2013
    thanks a million Joanna!!! thanks, Keith