Is it possible litespeed has a problem with mobile safari ?

[aww]

I could be wrong but I am seeing strange, much longer page load times on mobile Safari from an iphone when connecting to litespeed 4.0.x

There are some subtle differences in Safari on iphone. Perhaps there is a timeout issue.

Does anyone have an easy way to test the same content from apache vs litespeed off their iphone?

I don't want to start "pointing fingers" until I have more data.

I know Chrome on Android is not experiencing any problems and it's also webkit based but there are definitely core differences between the two browsers.

[mistwang]

You can try "tcpdump" on server side.
First, find out the IP of your iPhone.
Then run command

tcpdump -s0 -X host <ip_of_your_iphone>

think it is just the poor AT&T wireless network.

[aww]

If you don't mind I am going to PM you with some charts.

[aww]

I turned off "smart keep alive" just to see if it makes any difference.

I am seeing roughly a 50% speed improvement, but it make be a fluke of course.

I will repeat the test late night on a weekend to see if super low traffic on their networks makes a difference.

[aww]

I think I found the problem, maybe, mobile Safari is being picky.

LiteSpeed sends a Connection: Keep-Alive when the source is php output and does not allow php to override?

However the last thing I send on the page is a tracking gif, which I send as embedded packed hex, with header('Content-Type: image/gif') Content-Length: 43 and most importantly header('Connection: close')

The Connection: close is being removed/overwritten by litespeed with keep-alive, so safari keeps waiting for up to 5 seconds before it times out (or litespeed does).

How can I force litespeed to close the connection from php when I want it to?

(note that other browsers do not seem to have this problem so I am not blaming litespeed)

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:26:57 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Content-Type: image/gif
Content-Length: 43

[mistwang]

you can turn off keepalive with rewrite rule, like

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} iphone_user_agent_signature
RewriteRule . - [E=nokeepalive:1]