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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:18:28 -0700, Daniel Gackle gackle@shaw.ca wrote:

Just out of curiosity, is this the worker thread that originally sent the response to the browser? i.e. it's waiting for more response material and dies after a while when there isn't any?

Yes, that's most likely the case. There's a HTTP/1.1 connection between the browser and the server that both sides try to keep alive. The server (in the worker thread) keeps on reading (waiting for the next request) and gets a timeout after some time if the user doesn't do anything. The next request will then start a new worker thread.