Good afternoon,
This is the first time I ask a question here, so I hope I do it right.
I am using Tomcat 7.0.5 (with Tomcat Native 1.1.20 library) on Windows
Server 2003 (32-Bit) with Java 1.6.0_22, and I have configured IIS6.0 to use
the Jakarta 1.2.31 ISAPI Redirector (with "enable_chunked_encoding" set to
"true") to connect to Tomcat (using AJP/1.3).
I am using a simple webapp with some static files and some servlets.
When I use the Mozilla Firefox browser to view the website (which contains
static elements like images), I sometimes get HTTP 304 responses with a
content, which look like this:
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:46:09 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
ETag: W/"1285-1289228872000"
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
0
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:46:09 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
ETag: W/"15480-1290865988000"
Content-Length: 0
But in the RFC2616 it says that an HTTP 304 Response "must not contain a
message-body, and thus is always terminated by the first empty line after
the header fields." This leads Firefox sometimes to display the whole HTTP
headers of the next response and the content as plain text, because it
doesn't expect a Transfer-Encoding Chunked body ("0" + line separator) after
the headers of that HTTP 304 response.
Now if I set the "enable_chunked_encoding" setting to "false" for the ISAPI
Redirector, the responses look like this:
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:44:18 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
ETag: W/"15480-1290865988000"
Content-Length: 0
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:45:13 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
ETag: W/"1285-1289228872000"
This time it works with Firefox Browser (as no additional content follows
after the header), but even here it's still not correct, as I get a
"Content-Length: 0" header with the HTTP 304 Response (or a "Connection:
close" as the compensation for the disabled Chunked Encoding), although
there actually can't be any content.
My question is, why does the ISAPI Redirector send a Content body with an
HTTP 304 Response, although RFC 2616 doesn't allow it? Is there some way to
correct this behavior? I just used the "IIS HowTo" from the Tomcat Connector
Documentation to configure the ISAPI Redirector, and I would like to enable
the "chunked_encoding" setting because it improves performance.
Tomcat itself (HTTP/1.1 connector) doesn't send a "Content-length" or
"Transfer-Encoding" header on a HTTP 304 response.
Kind regards, Konstantin Preisser
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