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Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification

blog.cloudflare.com published 2016-08-12

I was asked to debug another weird issue on our network. Apparently every now and then a connection going through CloudFlare would time out with 522 HTTP error.

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