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Gonzalo Bermúdez updated HTTPCLIENT-1616:
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    Attachment: TestMalformedServerResponse.java

This is the modified test case, failing. The only thing that changed was the 
response entity, from a String to a ByteArray full of zeroes (very similar to a 
gzipped empty String)

> Request 'hangs' on invalid response from server
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1616
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1616
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Fluent HC, HttpClient (classic)
>    Affects Versions: 4.3.6
>         Environment: Java 8
> Running test with either Maven or IntelliJ.
>            Reporter: Joost den Boer
>         Attachments: TestMalformedServerResponse.java
>
>
> When using the fluent api to do a request and the response of the previous 
> request was status NoContent, but (!) the server did send some content 
> anyway, then the next request is blocked for a long time. No response is ever 
> returned. Eventually some timeout will unblock the thread, but the request 
> has failed.
> To reproduce this issue:
> - create a server which returns a NoContent with some text body.
> - do a first request
> - do a second request. This request hangs/blocks the thread for long time.
> We're using Fluent API to easily unit test our rest api. In a test class 
> where a test was doing multiple requests, the first test would pass, but the 
> second test would stall and eventually fail. Individually the tests were 
> passing. I could not find any issue on the server side, so I tried another 
> http client (Ning) which seemed to fix the issue. After rewriting the test to 
> use Ning instead of HttpClient, the tests were successful, but when I changed 
> it to reuse the same AsyncHttpClient, I got the same issue. However, because 
> Ning does not block but throws an exception, I was finally able to find the 
> issue which caused the problem: an endpoint returning a NoContent status, but 
> with some text body.
> Even though this is a server issue, the httpclient should not block the 
> thread for such a long time and also return a proper error so this kind of 
> issues so the cause is easier to track down. Now, if I would not have used 
> Ning, I would not have found the issue.
> The problem occurred when using Fluent Api, but I assume to cause for the 
> thread to block and not return a proper error is in the HttpClient component.



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