Hi, I run a Spring web service application under Tomcat 5.5.25 and need to eliminate stack traces from all error responses.
For Tomcat 3.2 you could add showDebugInfo="false" to server.conf but this is not an option for 5.5. Defining <error-page> in web.xml to handle all exceptions (<exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type>) does not help. I am not sure if that's related to the fact that exception is thrown before request object is fully created and any of my code is actually called. Any suggestions? Any standard page with an error will do as long as it does not have any stack trace info. Sample response with the stack trace and error log snippets are below. Thank you B.D Response with stack trace: Submitted Data Too Large<html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/5.5.25 - Error report</title><style><!--H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,s ans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-col or:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;fon t-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 500 - </h1> <HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Exception report</p><p><b>message</b> <u> ;</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request .</u></p><p><b>exception</b> <pre>org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom.AxiomSoapMessageCreationException: Could not parse reque st: Strange I/O stream, returned 0 bytes on read; nested exception is com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Strange I/O stream, returned 0 bytes on read org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom.AxiomSoapMessageFactory.createWebServiceMessage(AxiomSoapMessageFactory.java:203) org.springframework.ws.transport.AbstractWebServiceConnection.receive(AbstractWebServiceConnection.java:86) org.springframework.ws.transport.support.WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.handleConnection(WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.java:86) org.springframework.ws.transport.http.WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.handle(WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.java:57) org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.doService(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:230) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:511) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) </pre></p><p><b>note</b> <u>The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.25 logs.</u>& lt;/p><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><h3>Apache Tomcat/5.5.25</h3></body></html> {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HttpErrorCode:413 I defined error handling page but it does not capture exception: >From web.xml: <error-page> <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type> <location>/error.jsp</location> </error-page> >From logs: SEVERE: Exception Processing ErrorPage[exceptionType=java.lang.Throwable, location=/error.jsp] org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom.AxiomSoapMessageCreatio$ at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0]; nested exception is org.apache.axiom.om.OMException: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0] at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(Framework Servlet.java:583) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:511) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:691) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:471) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:403) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.custom(StandardHostValve.java:364) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.throwable(StandardHostValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:135) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:200) at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:283) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:773) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:703) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:895) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom.AxiomSoapMessageCreationException: Could not create message: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF i$ at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0]; nested exception is org.apache.axiom.om.OMException: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0] at org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom.AxiomSoapMessageFactory.createWebServiceMessage(AxiomSoapMessageFactory.java:206) at org.springframework.ws.transport.AbstractWebServiceConnection.receive(AbstractWebServiceConnection.java:86) at org.springframework.ws.transport.support.WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.handleConnection(WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.java:86) at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.handle(WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.java:57) at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.doService(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:230) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571) ... 22 more Caused by: org.apache.axiom.om.OMException: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0] at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:249) at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.getSOAPEnvelope(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:156) at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.identifySOAPVersion(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:128) at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.<init>(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:122) at org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom.AxiomSoapMessageFactory.createAxiomSoapMessage(AxiomSoapMessageFactory.java:228) at org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom.AxiomSoapMessageFactory.createWebServiceMessage(AxiomSoapMessageFactory.java:199) ... 27 more Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0] at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwUnexpectedEOF(StreamScanner.java:661) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.handleEOF(BasicStreamReader.java:2134) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromProlog(BasicStreamReader.java:2040) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1069) at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.parserNext(StAXOMBuilder.java:506) at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:161) ... 32 more