On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 12:32 +0000, Alex, Joseph (Contractor) wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
> 
> We will consider upgrading, but wanted to know if this issue is specific to 
> HttpClient (in which case, upgrade would help) or at the underlying transport 
> level. The part that's puzzling is the intermittent nature of this error. The 
> posts I've seen so far mention about misconfigured certificates etc. for 
> which the error happens on every invocation. This is a direct call from 
> client to a single JVM instance specifying host:port (no proxies, load 
> balancers etc.) so the possibility of one of the hosts being misconfigured is 
> also out of question.
> 

I doubt this issue is client related but there are reasons to upgrade to
HC 4.3.

Oleg

> Thanks,
> Joseph
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 6:39 AM
> To: HttpClient User Discussion
> Subject: Re: Intermittent ProtocolException in HttpClient 3.x
> 
> On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 03:38 +0000, Alex, Joseph (Contractor) wrote:
> > After enabling wire logging, we see that the response is having some hex 
> > values ([0x15][0x3][0x1][0x0][0x2][0x2]) at the beginning of response for 
> > all failed cases. This explains the ProtocolException, since it's not 
> > starting with HTTP. Sample below :
> > 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.Wire.wire  >> "GET /api/request?id=111 
> > HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.Wire.wire  >> "Authorization: Basic 
> > AAA[\r][\n]"
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.Wire.wire  >> "User-Agent: Jakarta 
> > Commons-HttpClient/3.0.1[\r][\n]"
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.Wire.wire  >> "Host:a.b.com:8443[\r][\n]"
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.Wire.wire  >> "[\r][\n]"
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.Wire.wire  << 
> > "[0x15][0x3][0x1][0x0][0x2][0x2][\r][\n]"
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.Wire.wire  << "null[\r][\n]"
> > 
> > Googling this pattern (15 03 01 00 02 02) , it seems to match with SSL 
> > handshake errors (v3 alert, but with last byte missing..from 
> > http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4483157) . What could 
> > be the reasons for such a response?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Joseph
> > 
> 
> Joseph,
> 
> I am very sorry but HC 3.1 is no longer supported. Please consider upgrading.
> 
> Oleg
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex, Joseph (Contractor)
> > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 1:42 AM
> > To: HttpClient User Discussion
> > Subject: Intermittent ProtocolException in HttpClient 3.x
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are getting intermittent ProtocolException " failed to respond with a 
> > valid HTTP response" when calling a https URL hosted in Tomcat 6.x. This is 
> > HTTPClient 3.x and used within an IBM JVM (JDK 6.x) Both client and server 
> > are within same organization, just different servers and configuration. 
> > Stacktrace below :
> > 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.ProtocolException: The server a.b.com failed 
> > to respond with a valid HTTP response
> >         at 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.readStatusLine(HttpMethodBase.java:1846)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.readResponse(HttpMethodBase.java:1590)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.execute(HttpMethodBase.java:995)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:397)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:170)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:396)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java
> > :324)
> > 
> > From HTTPClient source, this is thrown here :
> > 
> > else if (s == null || count >= maxGarbageLines) {
> >                 // Giving up
> >                 throw new ProtocolException("The server " + conn.getHost() +
> >                         " failed to respond with a valid HTTP response");
> >             }
> > 
> > I assume this means a connection has been established ,and a response 
> > returned , but it's just not valid and at some point it becomes null. Is 
> > this a right assumption, and how do we go about debugging. Is this related 
> > to the URL being HTTPS , and why does it happen only intermittently. During 
> > these errors, we don’t see entries in the server's access log, which 
> > indicates the request hasn't been processed.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Joseph
> > 
> > 
> > 
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