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problem with lost request parameters
Hi,
I posted this email in tomcat users list, but no one there could
really help me. So, I decided to post it here in the developers list
because I think there is a problem with tomcat code and maybe a
developer would help me better. I am sorry if I am incovenient in any way.
Here is my problem:
I have my web application hosted at brazilian Locaweb. It runs on a
Linux as40-32bits server with tomcat 5.5.15 and java 5. My application
runs with many (I don't know exactly how many) others in the same tomcat
server. My application uses postgresql 8 database, hibernate 2.1.7c,
servlet 2.4, jsp 2.0, jstl 1.1 and tiles without struts.
My problem is that I can't get the request parameters submitted by
some of my users. My form uses the post method to submit its data. When
I call request.getParameter("validationScheme") in my servlet I get
null. request.getParametersNames() also returns an empty Enumeration. My
servlet then throws a ServletException because it can't find a mandatory
parameter. I have never experienced this problem in forms that use the
"get" method to submit its data. My form has few parameters, they are:
validationScheme (hidden), email and password. It is a simple login
form. Here is the relevant html code for my form:
<form action="<c:url value="v.servlet"/>" method="post" style="margin:0"
enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">
<table width="153" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">
<tr align="left">
<td width="30%" class="textologin"
align="right"><strong>e-mail</strong></td>
<td width="70%"><input name="email" type="text" class="combos"
size="17" maxlength="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr align="left">
<td width="30%" class="textologin"
align="right"><strong>senha</strong></td>
<td width="70%"><input name="password" type="password"
class="combos" size="10">
<input name="validationScheme" type="hidden" value="loginUsual">
<input type="submit" value="ok" class="botaook"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
I have already tried the following:
- adding <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" %>
declaration in all my jsp pages;
- adding <form ... enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
accept-charset="ISO-8859-1"> attributes in all my html forms;
- adding <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1"> in all my jsp and html pages;
- adding a filter that sets the request character encoding to
ISO-8859-1 (request.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-1")). This filter is
executed for every jsp and servlet in my application;
- searched the web for "tomcat lost request parameter" and
"tomcat lose request parameter" using google and found nothing that
could help me;
I asked the support people from Locaweb to execute tcpdump while my
user tried to submit the form. tcpdump results showed that the request
parameters are getting to tomcat correctly. So, I think that tomcat is
losing these parameters for some reason that I don't understand.
I also noticed that these errors don't happen to all of my users,
but when it happens to a specific user, it can be easily reproduced by
that user. Unfortunately, I have never been able to reproduce the error
in my machines.
Here is some user information logged by my error page when the
problem happens:
=======
user 1
=======
Thu Jan 19 11:45:05 BRST 2006
Request that failed: /v.servlet
Status code: 500
Protocol: HTTP/1.0
Remote Address: 201.9.198.113
Remote Host: 201.9.198.113
Remote Port: 0
Local Address:
Local Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
Local Port: 80
Server Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
Server Port: 80
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;
FunWebProducts)
Request Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
Request Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Response Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
Response Content-type: text/html
Request Locale: pt_BR
Response Locale: pt_BR
Throwable: javax.servlet.ServletException: 'validationScheme' request
parameter not found
.... (exception stack trace)
request parameters: {}
=======
user 2
=======
Thu Jan 19 12:13:37 BRST 2006
Request that failed: /v.servlet
Status code: 500
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Remote Address: 201.29.118.23
Remote Host: 201.29.118.23
Remote Port: 0
Local Address:
Local Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
Local Port: 80
Server Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
Server Port: 80
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Request Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
Request Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Response Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
Response Content-type: text/html
Request Locale: pt_BR
Response Locale: pt_BR
Throwable: javax.servlet.ServletException: 'validationScheme' request
parameter not found
.... (exception stack trace)
request parameters: {}
I also looked at tomcat 5.5.15 source code, class
org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteRequest, method parseRequestParameters()
and noticed that expections (Throwable) are "swallowed" in request
parameter processing. So, I think that if any problem happens during
this process, the code will silently ignore the request parameter. I
also think that this is what is happening in my case. Here is the
relevant part of the code:
/**
* Parse request parameters.
*/
protected void parseRequestParameters() {
....
int len = getContentLength();
if (len > 0) {
try {
byte[] formData = null;
if (len < CACHED_POST_LEN) {
if (postData == null)
postData = new byte[CACHED_POST_LEN];
formData = postData;
} else {
formData = new byte[len];
}
int actualLen = readPostBody(formData, len);
if (actualLen == len) {
parameters.processParameters(formData, 0, len);
}
} catch (Throwable t) {
; // Ignore
}
}
}
Please, is there anything else I can do to fix this problem? Do you
have any ideas to help me? Any help would be really appreciated.
Thank you very much for your help.
Thanks,
Jair Jr
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Re: problem with lost request parameters
Posted by Jair da Silva Ferreira Jr <j2...@amazon.com.br>.
Hi,
I changed all my forms to method GET and the problem disappeared.
So, I think there might be a problem with post form data processing in
tomcat 5.5.12.
I can't keep my forms in GET method because some of them submit the
user password. So, any new ideas to solve the problem?
Thanks,
Jair Jr
Jair da Silva Ferreira Jr escreveu:
> Hi,
> I posted this email in tomcat users list, but no one there could
> really help me. So, I decided to post it here in the developers list
> because I think there is a problem with tomcat code and maybe a
> developer would help me better. I am sorry if I am incovenient in any
> way.
>
> Here is my problem:
> I have my web application hosted at brazilian Locaweb. It runs on a
> Linux as40-32bits server with tomcat 5.5.15 and java 5. My application
> runs with many (I don't know exactly how many) others in the same tomcat
> server. My application uses postgresql 8 database, hibernate 2.1.7c,
> servlet 2.4, jsp 2.0, jstl 1.1 and tiles without struts.
>
> My problem is that I can't get the request parameters submitted by
> some of my users. My form uses the post method to submit its data. When
> I call request.getParameter("validationScheme") in my servlet I get
> null. request.getParametersNames() also returns an empty Enumeration. My
> servlet then throws a ServletException because it can't find a mandatory
> parameter. I have never experienced this problem in forms that use the
> "get" method to submit its data. My form has few parameters, they are:
> validationScheme (hidden), email and password. It is a simple login
> form. Here is the relevant html code for my form:
>
> <form action="<c:url value="v.servlet"/>" method="post" style="margin:0"
> enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">
> <table width="153" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">
> <tr align="left">
> <td width="30%" class="textologin"
> align="right"><strong>e-mail</strong></td>
> <td width="70%"><input name="email" type="text" class="combos"
> size="17" maxlength="50"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr align="left">
> <td width="30%" class="textologin"
> align="right"><strong>senha</strong></td>
> <td width="70%"><input name="password" type="password"
> class="combos" size="10">
> <input name="validationScheme" type="hidden" value="loginUsual">
> <input type="submit" value="ok" class="botaook"></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </form>
>
> I have already tried the following:
> - adding <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" %>
> declaration in all my jsp pages;
> - adding <form ... enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
> accept-charset="ISO-8859-1"> attributes in all my html forms;
> - adding <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=ISO-8859-1"> in all my jsp and html pages;
> - adding a filter that sets the request character encoding to
> ISO-8859-1 (request.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-1")). This filter is
> executed for every jsp and servlet in my application;
> - searched the web for "tomcat lost request parameter" and
> "tomcat lose request parameter" using google and found nothing that
> could help me;
>
> I asked the support people from Locaweb to execute tcpdump while my
> user tried to submit the form. tcpdump results showed that the request
> parameters are getting to tomcat correctly. So, I think that tomcat is
> losing these parameters for some reason that I don't understand.
>
> I also noticed that these errors don't happen to all of my users,
> but when it happens to a specific user, it can be easily reproduced by
> that user. Unfortunately, I have never been able to reproduce the error
> in my machines.
>
> Here is some user information logged by my error page when the
> problem happens:
> =======
> user 1
> =======
> Thu Jan 19 11:45:05 BRST 2006
> Request that failed: /v.servlet
> Status code: 500
> Protocol: HTTP/1.0
> Remote Address: 201.9.198.113
> Remote Host: 201.9.198.113
> Remote Port: 0
> Local Address:
> Local Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
> Local Port: 80
> Server Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
> Server Port: 80
> User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;
> FunWebProducts)
> Request Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
> Request Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> Response Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
> Response Content-type: text/html
> Request Locale: pt_BR
> Response Locale: pt_BR
> Throwable: javax.servlet.ServletException: 'validationScheme' request
> parameter not found
> .... (exception stack trace)
> request parameters: {}
>
> =======
> user 2
> =======
> Thu Jan 19 12:13:37 BRST 2006
> Request that failed: /v.servlet
> Status code: 500
> Protocol: HTTP/1.1
> Remote Address: 201.29.118.23
> Remote Host: 201.29.118.23
> Remote Port: 0
> Local Address:
> Local Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
> Local Port: 80
> Server Name: www.dvdfilme.com.br
> Server Port: 80
> User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
> Request Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
> Request Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> Response Character Encoding: ISO-8859-1
> Response Content-type: text/html
> Request Locale: pt_BR
> Response Locale: pt_BR
> Throwable: javax.servlet.ServletException: 'validationScheme' request
> parameter not found
> .... (exception stack trace)
> request parameters: {}
>
> I also looked at tomcat 5.5.15 source code, class
> org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteRequest, method parseRequestParameters()
> and noticed that expections (Throwable) are "swallowed" in request
> parameter processing. So, I think that if any problem happens during
> this process, the code will silently ignore the request parameter. I
> also think that this is what is happening in my case. Here is the
> relevant part of the code:
>
> /**
> * Parse request parameters.
> */
> protected void parseRequestParameters() {
> ....
> int len = getContentLength();
>
> if (len > 0) {
> try {
> byte[] formData = null;
> if (len < CACHED_POST_LEN) {
> if (postData == null)
> postData = new byte[CACHED_POST_LEN];
> formData = postData;
> } else {
> formData = new byte[len];
> }
> int actualLen = readPostBody(formData, len);
> if (actualLen == len) {
> parameters.processParameters(formData, 0, len);
> }
> } catch (Throwable t) {
> ; // Ignore
> }
> }
> }
>
> Please, is there anything else I can do to fix this problem? Do you
> have any ideas to help me? Any help would be really appreciated.
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Thanks,
> Jair Jr
>
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