Hi,
Java client application that has been in production for 2 years is running
into an issue now. Client application uses commons-httpclient.jar (version
2.0.2) to communicate with weblogic 8.1 hosted J2EE app. All of a sudden, at
random failures are occuring while processing the HTTP response. This
behavior is sporadic and unfortunately not reproducible in the same or
different environment. Meaning, if the transaction that leads to the issue
is rerun, it works fine. The details of the issue are below.
As part of the code below
..
//create a method object
method = *new* PostMethod(*this*.config.getURL());
method.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/xml");
*if* (headers != *null*) {
* for* (*int* i = 0; headers.size() > i; i++) {
Header header = (Header)headers.get(i);
method.setRequestHeader(header);
}
}
StringRequestEntity entity = *new* StringRequestEntity(request);
method.setRequestEntity(entity);
//execute the method
client.executeMethod(method);
String result = method.getResponseBodyAsString();
method.getResponseBodyAsString() occasionally returns HTTP content instead
of the expected XML response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:41:46 GMT
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
0fe6
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Envelope>
…
</Envelope>
0000
The response XML sizes vary between ~2kb to ~50Kb. Can anyone
provide insight into this odd behavior? Thanks
Pradeep A
