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TechTip: Getting 500 error when trying to post SOAP docs when Transfer-encoding is chunked after upgrading to Apache 2.4 and WSS 12.52SP1

  • 1.  TechTip: Getting 500 error when trying to post SOAP docs when Transfer-encoding is chunked after upgrading to Apache 2.4 and WSS 12.52SP1

    Posted May 04, 2017 05:30 AM

    Issue

    I'm protecting a Web Service using SOA Authentication Scheme, and I'm acceding it Apache CXF client.

     

    But I noticed that instead of sending the request in normal format, Customer is sending the request in chunked format.

     

    The HTTP headers show :

     

      Transfer-Encoding: chunked

     

    How can I fix this ?

     

     

    Environment

    Policy Server Version: R12.52 SP1 on Win2008 32-bit Policy Store Database: SQL server Web Server : Apache 2.4. Soa Agent: R12.52 SP1 and SiteMinder APACHE 2.4 WebAgent, Version 12.52 QMR01, Update HF-01, Label 640. on RH6 64-bit.

    Cause

    When a SOAP request is sent in "chunked" format (Transfer-Encoding: chunked), the request header won’t contain "Content-Length" Header. Instead, the Web Server will set the header "Transfer-Encoding".

     

    In the Web Service Security Agent TxmPlugin code, we are not honoring "Transfer-Encoding" header.

     

     

    Resolution

    The Web Service Security Agent Code has been modified to honor the "Transfer-Encoding" header with value "chunked".

     

    This is fixed in 12.52SP1CR05 and described in Cumulative Fix release note :

     

         00178689     DE107313     The request header does not contain the Content-Length header when a SOAP request is sent in chunked format.

     

         Defects Fixed in 12.52 SP1 CR05

     

    KD : TEC1496968



  • 2.  Re: TechTip: Getting 500 error when trying to post SOAP docs when Transfer-encoding is chunked after upgrading to Apache 2.4 and WSS 12.52SP1

     


  • 3.  Re: TechTip: Getting 500 error when trying to post SOAP docs when Transfer-encoding is chunked after upgrading to Apache 2.4 and WSS 12.52SP1

    Posted May 24, 2017 02:36 AM

    If upgrade is not immediately possible, probably downgrading the HTTP to 1.0 for that specific URL would help workaround the problem.