topic stream timeout in General Topics

stream timeout

I.Erdurucan — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:24:48 GMT

Hello Palo Alto World!

We are experiencing a "stream timeout" error when visiting srm.gzhtdq.com.cn (see also stream_timeout.png). When we disable GlobalProtect and do not use the VPN Tunnel, then the website works. I excluded the website from decryption, but it didn't help.

I am not sure what the issue for this could be. The application being recognized is ssl. If we decrypt, then it is web-browsing.

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Re: stream timeout

JayGolf — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:17:13 GMT

Hi @I.Erdurucan ,

What do the traffic logs look like for this connection? Im particularly interested in bytes sent, bytes received, and session-end reason. With an issue like this, there can be a number of issues that relate to MTU/Security Profiles/Routing.

Before getting into the weeds further, can run a quick curl test both with and without GP:

curl -Iv https://srm.gzhtdq.com.cn --max-time 10

Also... do you have an internal client in your trust zone that you can test from? If the stream works from a host on the internal network but fails only through GP, that helps narrow the scope. If it fails internally as well, then we know the behavior isn’t tied to the tunnel at all.

A quick low-effort test you can try right away is to temporarily remove security profiles from the security policy that governs this connection. If you have a general outbound internet rule, I’d suggest creating a separate allow rule just for this site during testing. This helps isolate whether Threat Prevention or URL Filtering is influencing the stream timeout.

Those are just a few things I would personally start out with to figure out what could be done without having to run a full on packet capture.

Re: stream timeout

I.Erdurucan — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:11:39 GMT

Hii @JayGolf,

firstly, thank you for your support!

So, regarding the low-effort test: The result was that it still does not work. But before this change, it was the error shown in the previous screenshot. This time, we have a "This page isn't working right now". ERR_Empty_Response.

In the logs, everything looks fine:

sub-type: end

session-end-reason: tcp-fin

Bytes-statistic, see bytes.png

see curl-png for output of your provided command.

EDIT: The issue occurs in the office as well

Best,

Ibrahim