Thank you for pointing out my error in assuming that it was Tomcat's fault. I have forwarded the issue to the application vendor to see if they can fix. I appreciate your time in responding to my question. I will consider this questions closed.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 29/01/2015 22:29, Jeff Kohut wrote: > > My first post to Tomcat list, pardon me if I make any mistakes, > > > > Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I have a Tomcat Server (V 7.0.54) running under Windows 2008 R2 With > > Service Pack 1 (and up to date on Security as well as OS patches). That > > server is running a vendor supplied group of applications via .war file > as > > normal. to receive Soap/XML data from remote computer and process and > > return data back to calling application. > > > > The remote calling application hosted by IBM Websphere Application Server > > (running Axis2 jars) that is sending XML Soap data via a Post to the > Tomcat > > Web server on port 8080/8443. If the amount of data is relatively small > > (i.e. 14 K) we have no problem receiving the data as Websphere is using > > Length Http 1.1 header and Tomcat sends the data to the application with > no > > issue. However as the data gets larger, Websphere begins using Chunked > > Transfer Encoding and apparently Tomcat does not seem to like this as it > > returns Http 411 "Length Required" message. > > <snip/> > > The mistake you have made is assuming that it is Tomcat internal code > that is returning the 411. It isn't. Tomcat never sends that response > code. It is the application that is processing the data and failing to > handle the lack of content-length when chunked encoding is used. > > For the record, Tomcat handles chunked request bodies quite happily and > we have a bunch of unit tests that cover this. > > You need to complain to the vendor that provides the applications you > are running on your Tomcat instance. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
