Oleg,
I can reliably reproduce the problem any time we try posting a large xml
file (> 1 MB). I'm not sure that I could produce a JUnit test case because
the code executes fine, it simply takes an exponentially long time than it
does using the current code that simply opens a socket and sends the data
(that code is included below).
// Get URL Connection and Socket
url = new URL(this.url);
socket = new Socket(url.getHost(), url.getPort());
socket.setSoTimeout(BestProperties.getIntProperty("vmu.url.timeout"));
// building request in StringBuffer
sbRequest.setLength(0);
sbRequest.append("POST" + " " + url.getFile() + " HTTP/1.0\r");
sbRequest.append("Content-Type: text/xml\r");
sbRequest.append("User-Agent: Java 1.4.0\n");
sbRequest.append("Host: " + url.getHost() + "\n");
sbRequest.append("Accept: text/html,text/xml,text/plain, */*\n");
sbRequest.append("Cache-Control: no-cache\n");
sbRequest.append("Connection: Close\n");
sbRequest.append("Content-Length: " + stream.length() + "\n");
sbRequest.append("\n" + stream + "\n");
// sending the request
request = new PrintStream(new
BufferedOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream()));
request.println(sbRequest.toString());
request.flush();
// getting response from client
response = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
- what platform are you using on the client-side and on the server-side?
We are using Linux on the client and Solaris on the server
- are you using chunk-encoding or not?
- if not, are you explicitly specifying the content length or not?
- are you sure that HttpClient does try to buffer the request in order to be
able to determine its size?
We are using the PostXML example from the CVS tree. We made one
modification and that was to include a debug statement so that we knew that
it was setting the ContentLenght to: 2022007
- have you tried posting large files to Tomcat servlet engine running on the
same platform? I have not tried it myself, but I believe quite a few
people have been successfully using HttpClient to post massive files
Unfortunately this is not an option for us at this time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:39 PM
To: Commons HttpClient Project
Subject: RE: Problem encountered posting large files
Gourav,
We will have difficulties addressing this problem unless we know how it
can be reliably reproduced. So, we will need your help on that. A JUnit
test case reproducing the problem would be ideals
More questions:
- what platform are you using on the client-side and on the server-side?
- are you using chunk-encoding or not?
- if not, are you explicitly specifying the content length or not?
- are you sure that HttpClient does try to buffer the request in order
to be able to determine its size?
- have you tried posting large files to Tomcat servlet engine running on
the same platform? I have not tried it myself, but I believe quite a few
people have been successfully using HttpClient to post massive files
Cheers
Oleg
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:06, Pani, Gourav wrote:
> Oleg,
>
> - The HttpClient takes a lot longer to post large files as opposed to
using
> a raw socket.
> - The header on the HTTP Server is as follows
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:02:57 GMT
> Server: WebLogic WebLogic Temporary Patch for CR072964 04/03/2002
> 10:26:28
> Content-Length: 0
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Connection: Close
> - We do not get any exceptions because it keeps trying to post and then
the
> thread hangs. Finally, I just have to kill the thread.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gourav
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:00 PM
> To: Commons HttpClient Project
> Subject: Re: Problem encountered posting large files
>
>
> Gourav,
>
> Help us understand the problem better:
> - Are you saying that it takes longer to post a large file using
> HttpClient compared to using a raw socket?
> - What kind of HTTP server are you posting your request to?
> - What kind of exception are you getting? Can you post the the call
> stack of that exception?
>
> Oleg
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:36, Pani, Gourav wrote:
> > I am using HttpClient release 2.0 Alpha 3 using J2SDK1.4.1_01 . When I
> try
> > posting large files greater than 2MB using the PostXML.java example, I
see
> > the packets going across and get responses back but it takes extremely
> long
> > sending the data and in the process, the connection times out.
> >
> > I managed to successfully post and receive a response using the Socket
> > object in a different test program.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> > Gourav
> >
> >
> >
> >
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