On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:47 PM, kingolego <[email protected]> wrote:
> A CXF-based proxy route creates multiple (two) user-agent HTTP headers, which
> causes error responses from the recipient server.
>
> In a proxy scenario, Camel is sending two user-agent HTTP headers from the
> outbound endpoint.
> The first is from the incoming client (SoapUI in this case). Interestingly
> enough, the in-bound endpoint has lower-cased the header name (HTTP header
> names are supposed to be case-insensitive; see RFC2616 section 4.2 "Message
> Headers" [1]).
>
>     user-agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)
>     User-Agent: Apache CXF 2.6.3
>
> In this (and most? all?) scenarios, Camel/CXF should preserve the original
> user-agent if it exists and not add a new one. I suspect the root cause may
> be the handling of HTTP headers in a case-sensitive manner.
>

Yeah that smells like a bug in camel-cxf / CXF.
Let me  log a JIRA ticket.


> While multiple headers with the same name is allowed by RFC2616 4.2 [1]
> under _certain conditions_, many HTTP server implementations allow it for
> only certain headers, e.g., Set-Cookie. Otherwise, they return an error
> response. In this particular case, Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
> returns a 400 response code and includes the following text in the response:
> "HTTP Error 400. The request has an invalid header name."
>
> A workaround is to remove incoming headers in the route by adding:
>
>     <removeHeader headerName="User-Agent" />
>     <removeHeader headerName="user-agent" />
> or
>     <removeHeaders pattern="CamelHttp*" />
>
> Although this has the minor undesirable effect of losing the original
> user-agent information.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2
>
>
>
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