JDK-4774503 : keepAlive Mechanism of HttpURLConnection: Exceptions when using object serializa
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.net
  • Affected Version: 1.3.1_04,1.4.1_01
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: solaris_8
  • CPU: sparc
  • Submitted: 2002-11-06
  • Updated: 2003-01-14
  • Resolved: 2003-01-14
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1.4.2 b13Fixed
Description
Related bug ids are: 4746367, 4752007, 4757465

A detailed description/analysis can be found in description of bug 4746367.


Wed Nov 06 03:25:56 MST 2002	as133206

Wed Nov 06 04:04:09 MST 2002	as133206
Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: mantis-beta FIXED IN: mantis-beta INTEGRATED IN: mantis-b13 mantis-beta
14-06-2004
SUGGESTED FIX The proposed fix for 1.4.2 is here :- http://sunweb.ireland.sun.com/~ab23780/4774503/webrev/index.html ###@###.### 2002-11-22
22-11-2002
EVALUATION The information in 4746367 suggests that we have a client sending a serialized object via HTTP to a servlet but the servlet is seeing a premature EOF and a StreamCorruptedException is thrown. The analysis in 4746367 is based on 1.3.1_04 which has a number of bugs in its handling of persistent connections. All of these problems have been addressed in 1.4 and 1.4.1 and there should now be no possibility of prematurely closing a non-idle connection. The submiter has, however, confirmed that the exceptions have been observed when using 1.4.1_01. We need a trace of the problem with 1.4.1_01 to diagnose the issue further - with 1.4.1 the only possibility of premature close whilst streaming the request is if HttpURLConnection's disconnect method is called to disconnect the connection. ###@###.### 2002-11-06 The issue is now understood and does relates to the use of the disconnect method. disconnect is blindly closing the connection to the server irrespective of the state of the http request. If the response has been read to EOF the connection is returned to the keep-alive cache and could be allocated to another http request. Calling disconnect can thus cause havoc for this other request. ###@###.### 2002-11-18
18-11-2002