Solved. You gave me a clue that helped solve it, though Tomcat could handle this better (not put '0 POST' in for the method name in the first place).
Sun's implementation of HttpURLConnector apparently creates a new ChunkedOutputStream every time you call .getOutputStream(). In other words, multiple calls to conn.getOutputStream().close(); cause corrupted output. Calling .close() on the same output stream does not cause corrupted output. So if I call conn.getOutputStream().close(); 10 times, I get a very interesting method name. I looked at the source for this, and it was not apparent that they meant to do this. However, with this code, my method name becomes: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 POST So this is a case of the client emitting bad HTTP, and me not reading the socket dump correctly. Thanks for your help! -----Original Message----- From: Jason Smith [mailto:jsm...@infotrustgroup.com] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:47 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Help with a Tomcat issue??? I'll see if I can set up a working example. And I didn't mean to say "proxy," not that there is one. We aren't using JK connector. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Jason Smith [mailto:jsm...@infotrustgroup.com] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:28 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Help with a Tomcat issue??? Just Tomcat, no proxy. And I agree, that isn't the way you'd want to fix it ultimately, but I was experimenting to find out what worked. You'd ultimately like to not see the '0' at the beginning of the buffer. I found the place where it was getting copied to the beginning of the buffer, but I can't figure out the logic behind the code. Too many micro opts (it's fast!). What did NOT work was simply subverting the copying of the data and setting the buffer length to 0, as is normally the case. There are apparently some instances where .nextRequest must copy the data from one buffer to the next. I tried. Things didn't work so well after that... :-) I mentioned one of those in the previous email. But again, I am not yet familiar with this part of the Tomcat code. So I am probably missing something fairly obvious. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org