Read of HTTP Request POST parameters failed:Read timed out

Question

Hi !
Any one seen this exception . any ideas of the cause?
java.lang.RuntimeException: Read of HTTP Request POST parameters failed: Read timed out
at org.apache.catalina.connector.HttpRequestBase.parseParameters(HttpRequestBase.j ava:665)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.HttpRequestBase.getParameterValues(HttpRequestBase.java :737)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getParameterValues(RequestFacade.java:170 )
Thanks,

Answer 1

Assuming there is nothing wrong with
org.apache.catalina.connector.HttpRequestBase.parseParameters
I can only think of 2 things:
1. The timeout is set for an extremely short time in the Apache settings (server.xml의)
2. The client application is sending the POST verry slow or incorrect. For example the
client says that the POST is 500 long than sends 200 and leaves the connection open.
You can try and post the following:
request.txt:
POST /somePath/somefile.js HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:44
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 45
depreciatedButWontPostWithoutAName=some+valueThe client sending the request:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.applet.Applet;
public class appTest extends Applet implements Runnable {
     public static final int HTTP_PORT = 80;
     public static final String hostName = "localhost";
     public void run() {
          try{
               InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName(hostName);
               Socket s = new Socket(addr,HTTP_PORT);
               BufferedWriter wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(s.getOutputStream(), "UTF8"));
               s.setSoTimeout(2000);
               File fileToSend = new File("request.txt");
               FileInputStream fleHTML = new FileInputStream(fileToSend);
               StringBuffer sbHTMFile = new StringBuffer();
               int b = fleHTML.read();
               while(b!=-1){
                    sbHTMFile.append((char) b);
                    b = fleHTML.read();
               wr.write(sbHTMFile.toString());
               wr.flush();
               BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
               String line;
               while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                    System.out.println(line);
               wr.close();
               rd.close();
               } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
     public void init(){
          new Thread(this).start();
     public appTest(){
          new Thread(this).start();
     // main program
     public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception {
          new appTest();
}In appTest.java change HTTP_PORT to the port you need and hostName to the
hostname you need.
In request.txt change the /somePath/somefile.js to the location you desire.
And change Host: localhost:44 to the hostname and post you desire.