I've set up nginx (on Windows) as a front end for Tomcat. Accessing the Tomcat webapp works perfectly when I go directly to Tomcat from either Firefox or IE and when I access it from Java code. It also works perfectly the first time I request it from nginx, but the second time I request it from nginx there is a 60 second delay before nginx responds. Stopping the request in the browser resets the bby n_2 - Other discussion