[jira] [Resolved] (HTTPCLIENT-1815) CLONE - Request 'hangs' on invalid response from server

["Oleg Kalnichevski (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1815?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Oleg Kalnichevski resolved HTTPCLIENT-1815.
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    Resolution: Invalid

Gonzalo
With all due respect but we cannot be expected to provide a work-around for each and every craziness out there. If your application needs to be able to deal with completely insane garbage please consider building a custom response parser as demonstrated below instead of bastardizing the standard message transport logic.

With my custom parser the test case passes

{code:java}
    @Test
    public void testNoContentResponseWithGarbage() throws Exception {
        this.serverBootstrap.setConnectionFactory(new BrokenServerConnectionFactory());
        this.serverBootstrap.registerHandler("/nostuff", new HttpRequestHandler() {

            @Override
            public void handle(
                    final ClassicHttpRequest request,
                    final ClassicHttpResponse response,
                    final HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException {
                response.setCode(HttpStatus.SC_NO_CONTENT);
            }

        });
        this.serverBootstrap.registerHandler("/stuff", new HttpRequestHandler() {

            @Override
            public void handle(
                    final ClassicHttpRequest request,
                    final ClassicHttpResponse response,
                    final HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException {
                response.setCode(HttpStatus.SC_OK);
                response.setEntity(new StringEntity("Some important stuff"));
            }

        });

        final PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder.create()
                .setConnectionFactory(new ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory(
                        H1Config.DEFAULT,
                        ConnectionConfig.DEFAULT,
                        new DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory(),
                        new DefaultHttpResponseParserFactory() {

                            @Override
                            public HttpMessageParser<ClassicHttpResponse> create(final H1Config h1Config) {
                                return new DefaultHttpResponseParser() {

                                    @Override
                                    protected ClassicHttpResponse createMessage(final CharArrayBuffer buffer) throws IOException, HttpException {
                                        try {
                                            return super.createMessage(buffer);
                                        } catch (HttpException ex) {
                                            return new BasicClassicHttpResponse(200);
                                        }
                                    }
                                };

                            }
                        })).build();
        clientBuilder.setConnectionManager(cm);

        final HttpHost target = start();
        final HttpGet get1 = new HttpGet("/nostuff");
        try (CloseableHttpResponse response1 = this.httpclient.execute(target, get1)) {
            Assert.assertEquals(HttpStatus.SC_NO_CONTENT, response1.getCode());
            EntityUtils.consume(response1.getEntity());
        }
        final HttpGet get2 = new HttpGet("/stuff");
        try (CloseableHttpResponse response2 = this.httpclient.execute(target, get2)) {
            Assert.assertEquals(HttpStatus.SC_OK, response2.getCode());
            EntityUtils.consume(response2.getEntity());
        }
{code}

Oleg

> CLONE - Request 'hangs' on invalid response from server
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1815
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1815
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Fluent HC, HttpClient (classic)
>         Environment: Java 8
> Running test with either Maven or IntelliJ.
>            Reporter: Gonzalo Bermúdez
>         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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