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Subject: Re: Randon "ProtocolException: The server failed to respond with a
 valid
 HTTP response" while executing the client request
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From: Ravi C Chamarthy <ravi.chamarthy@in.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 19:01:54 +0530
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Hi Oleg,

Thanks for your response !

I tried to capture the request/response using an HTTP Analyzer tool.
In the response of the prior (in the one before this failed http request)
http call, I see the Connection header attribute value set to 'close'.
However, we indeed have the following explicit call to check stale
connections, but still is is failing with a blank response.

HttpConnectionParams.setStaleCheckingEnabled(params, true);

    <headers>
      <requestheaders>

<header>POST /ibm/iis/isf/javahttp/checked/com.ibm.iis.isf.security.auth.AuthenticationService/login
 HTTP/1.1</header>
        <header>Content-Length: 1048</header>
        <header>Content-Type: application/octet-stream</header>
        <header>Host: hyddev15:80</header>
        <header>Connection: Keep-Alive</header>
        <header>User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/IIS 4.2 (java 1.5)</header>
        <header>Cookie: JSESSIONID=0000titWHhRyPYrO6sWcA0LST3C:-1</header>
        <header>Cookie2: $Version=1</header>
        <header>Authorization: Basic
YXV0aF91c2VyXzI0NkZUT18wOmF1dGhfdXNlcl8yNDZGVE9fMA==</header>
      </requestheaders>
      <responseheaders>
        <header>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</header>
        <header>X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.0</header>
        <header>Content-Type: application/octet-stream</header>
        <header>Content-Language: en-US</header>
        <header>Set-Cookie: LtpaToken2=JAAuivq99D
+v6sR6rfq7FlVsFPnHoMwp1hTG9Pd5FPPA7gVEzGcC4lyZaLdVrQtYIy09yVVvIScN110DpQaHOi5BLMBzGdJZZw/1a5qd
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+S3ynNfAfj/h5Rf6pjJyACpQKeNoWFaAJ0JmEzBK1qGlc+Ne9Q=; Path=/;
HttpOnly</header>
        <header>Set-Cookie:
X-IBM-IISSessionId=oT9YXn09/H6fquWop8A6K9VFnXL/ZSfAHRBOb5V3MqZZArOL4rErcXklDC2ToSiWWRHfSkSDNm3oNOgHu20CoDLTipBXDTrAL6n05kwpQy0jbcvMQtglMgtAXLpD
+LqbJ1zDQPYe8UKSC4HuNSdOHc9t3oMrGksIQRtDHkwmuHQ=; Path=/; HttpOnly</header>
        <header>Transfer-Encoding: chunked</header>
        <header>Connection: Close</header>
        <header>Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:59:30 GMT</header>
        <header>Server: WebSphere Application Server/8.0</header>
        <header>Expires: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT</header>
        <header>Cache-Control: no-cache=&quot;set-cookie,
set-cookie2&quot;</header>
      </responseheaders>
    </headers>

Thanks,
Ravi Chamarthy
IBM Information Platform & Solutions
IBM Software Group
ravi.chamarthy@in.ibm.com


From:	Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk@apache.org>
To:	httpclient-users@hc.apache.org,
Date:	08/28/2012 05:10 PM
Subject:	Re: Randon "ProtocolException: The server failed to respond
            with a valid HTTP response" while executing the client request


On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 12:00 +0530, Ravi C Chamarthy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running a junit test case, where the test methods would submit http
> client requests to the target application server (WebSphere 8) which
hosts
> the serving application.
> While running the test case, I randomly run into the following error,
where
> in first run, say testA() would fail, and in a successive test run testA
()
> would pass but some other test method, say testB() would fail with the
same
> error message as listed below.
> I am not sure what is happening as it not a constant error occurring for
> the same method.
> What's more confusing is, the Servlet listening to the HTTP requests is
not
> at all called when this error occurred. And also, I do not see any error
> messages at the server side.
>

This exception is thrown when the server simply drops the connection in
the middle of HTTP exchange without responding in any meaningful way.
Quite often that can happen when the server is unable to accept new
incoming connections due to overload or an internal problem of some
sort. The servlet never gets called because the connection gets dropped
by WebSphere's HTTP stack before control is passed to your web
application.

Oleg

PS: Please do _not_ cross post.


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