We are using the ServletWebServer class, and we are getting occasional
hangs, where the listener thread gets stuck as follows:
"XML-RPC Weblistener" prio=3 tid=0x089bd000 nid=0x15 runnable
[0xe22ce000..0xe22ceb60]
java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
at
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(InputRecord.java:293)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.read(InputRecord.java:331)
at
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:789)
- locked <0xeb722510> (a java.lang.Object)
at
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readDataRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:746)
at
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppInputStream.read(AppInputStream.java:75)
- locked <0xeb722838> (a com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppInputStream)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:237)
- locked <0xeb72ae70> (a
org.apache.xmlrpc.webserver.HttpServletRequestImpl$1)
at
org.apache.xmlrpc.webserver.HttpServletRequestImpl$2.read(HttpServletRequestImpl.java:94)
at javax.servlet.ServletInputStream.readLine(ServletInputStream.java:94)
at
org.apache.xmlrpc.webserver.HttpServletRequestImpl.readLine(HttpServletRequestImpl.java:170)
at org.apache.xmlrpc.webserver.HttpServletRequestImpl.
(HttpServletRequestImpl.java:106)
at org.apache.xmlrpc.webserver.ServletConnection.
(ServletConnection.java:50)
at
org.apache.xmlrpc.webserver.ServletWebServer.newTask(ServletWebServer.java:145)
at org.apache.xmlrpc.webserver.WebServer.run(WebServer.java:335)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
The problem is this: when an incoming connection comes in, a new
HttpServletRequestImpl object is created. The constructor of that class
reads in the HTTP headers. The problem with *that* is that the
HttpServletRequestImpl constructor runs in the same thread that accepts
incoming connections, so if it blocks for any reason (e.g. the client
hangs) it blocks the accept thread, which means that any new connections
also hang.
I'm therefore proposing that the reading of the HTTP headers be factored
out of the HttpServletRequestImpl constructor and into a new method that
is called from the 'run' method of the thread that handles the request.
That way, a client that hangs will only hang the thread that is
servicing it and not the entire XML-RPC server.
Can anyone think of any reasons why this might cause problems? If not
I'll do the changes and submit a patch.
I also note that Connection class does this:
// set read timeout to 30 seconds
socket.setSoTimeout (30000);
That *should* mean that the maximum time a client can hang the server
for is 30 seconds, but by observation that's clearly not happening and
needs further investigation.
Thanks,
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Alan Burlison
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