Actually there is not a new line, it's the same line where the set cookie header is. So the line contains:
"Set-Cookie: user-cookie=xxxx; path=/; domain=.xxx.com; secure HTTP/1.0 200" Which I think makes this invalid. But I read somewhere that server can choose to change the protocol from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/1.0 in such cases it can send two of these headers? I am not quite sure if this is covered under folded headers thing. Thanks! Kedar -----Original Message----- From: Bindul Bhowmik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 3:18 PM To: Jakarta Commons Users List Subject: Re: [HTTPClient] Header parser Kedar, On 2/3/07, Kedar Panse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello guys! > > > > I have been using HTTPClient for quite a while, thanks to you guys work! > Recently I came across a site, which I believe is returning bad headers. > HTTPClient seems to choke on > > > > Set-Cookie: user-cookie=xxxx; path=/; domain=.xxx.com; secure HTTP/1.0 200 The HTTP/1.0 200 is the status line of the HTTP response and is supposed to be the first line in the response [1]. HttpClient is trying to parse that field as a name value HTTP Header. Also, not evident in the email, I think there is a new line character between secure and HTTP in that line. > > content-type: text/html > > > > Exception I get is: > > > > WARNING: org.apache.commons.httpclient.ProtocolException: Unable to parse > header: HTTP/1.0 200 > > > > > > Is this a valid header for cookie? Firefox/IE seem to get past it easy. Is > there any way to get around this? The way to get around this is to modify the HttpClient source. More specifically you need to modify the org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpParser#readLine(InputStream, String) method and can make it lenient and ask it to ignore any lines that dont follow the standard 'header-name: header-value' pattern. You can modify the source and rebuild your own jar. I don't know your entire response, but if HttpClient has reached the state where it is parsing the headers, I assume the server has already sent a status line as the first line of response. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Kedar > > Hope this helps, Regards, Bindul -- Bindul Bhowmik MindTree Consulting Ltd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]