On Thu, 2018-10-11 at 15:41 +0500, Adam Retter wrote:
> >
> > 1. Turn on 'expect-continue' handshake. It is intended precisely
> > for
> > such situations.
> >
>
> So I assume that for this I just set the HTTP Header, like so:
>
> httpPut.setHeader("Expect", "100-continue");
>
>
There is a RequestConfig option for that.
> If so, unfortunately that is not helping the request from the client
> now
> looks like:
>
> PUT /exist/rest/db/mediumfile.xml HTTP/1.1
> Expect: 100-continue
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Content-Type: application/xml
> Host: localhost:8080
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.6 (Java/1.8.0_162)
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
>
> The server almost immediately responds with
>
> HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
>
> The client then starts sending data, during which, the server
> responds with:
>
> HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:37:39 GMT
> WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="exist"
> Content-Length: 0
> Server: Jetty(9.4.10.v20180503)
>
> The server then closes the connection. I then get the same Broken
> pipe
> (Write failed) exceptions back from the Apache HTTP Client.
>
> Does this mean that the server is also not behaving correctly? i.e.
> because
> it returns 100 before it checks the authorization stuff? or is that
> also
> allowed by the spec?
>
Unfortunately this is legal from the HTTP spec standpoint even though
this behavior is just plain silly.
I have pointed it out to the Jetty developers a long time ago but they
said they liked it that way.
Oleg
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