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From: "Denis Goeury" <dgoeury@workspeed.com>
To: <tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: mod_jk2 ignores ajp13 packets if they contain less than 5 bytes
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:15:32 -0400
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Environment
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Apache 2.0.45
Tomcat 4.1.24
mod_jk2

Symptom
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mod_jk2 ignores ajp13 packets containing less than 5 bytes of data. Here
is an example of an "ignored" packet containing a two characters string
"ab".

  Byte   Content    Description

   0      0x12    standard header
   1      0x34    standard header
   2      0x00    data length
   3      0x04    data length
   4      0x00    string length
   5      0x02    string length
   6      0x61    'a'
   7      0x62    'b'

My findings
-----------

According to ajp13's documentation the packet's content is perfect.

By looking to Tomcat's source code I found that JkInputStream.receive()
checks the message's length and returns false if it is less than 5. Here
is the source code:

  /** Receive a chunk of data. Called to implement the
   *  'special' packet in ajp13 and to receive the data
   *  after we send a GET_BODY packet
   */
  public boolean receive() throws IOException
  {

    ...

    if( bodyMsg.getLen() <= 4 ) { // just the header
      // Don't mark 'end of stream' for the first chunk.
      // end_of_stream = true;
      return false;
    }

    ...

  }

It looks like JkInputStream.receive() thinks that MsgAjp.getLen()
returns the total number of bytes in the packet when in fact it returns
the data length (4 with the sample packet). This was confirmed by
connecting a debugger to Tomcat.

Question
--------

Is that a bug in JkInputStream, in MsgAjp, or is there something wrong
with my setup?

Thanks in advance,

Denis Goeury


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