or "what are all these ..reading.. connections in Apache when I use an AWS ELB?" A colleague of mine reported a problem where their Apache servers were reporting a number of connections in "..reading.." status. They suspected that Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer was causing the additional connections. Determining the source of the ..reading.. RequestsI devised a simple method to identify the source
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