Thanks for the reply. I should add that i'm using spring on camel 2.14 with the regular http component.
here is the stacktrace, I hit the service with telnet, and it returned no headers, so I am assuming that is the issue here. Furthermore, the service that does have headers works fine. the header-less services throw: org.apache.commons.httpclient.ProtocolException: The server 192.168.x.xx failed to respond with a valid HTTP response at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.readStatusLine(HttpMethodBase.java:1987) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.readResponse(HttpMethodBase.java:1735) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.execute(HttpMethodBase.java:1098) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:398) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:171) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:397) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:323) at org.apache.camel.component.http.HttpProducer.executeMethod(HttpProducer.java:244) at org.apache.camel.component.http.HttpProducer.process(HttpProducer.java:144) at org.apache.camel.util.AsyncProcessorConverterHelper$ProcessorToAsyncProcessorBridge.process(AsyncProcessorConverterHelper.java:61) at org.apache.camel.processor.SendProcessor.process(SendProcessor.java:129) at org.apache.camel.management.InstrumentationProcessor.process(InstrumentationProcessor.java:77) at org.apache.camel.processor.RedeliveryErrorHandler.process(RedeliveryErrorHandler.java:448) at org.apache.camel.processor.CamelInternalProcessor.process(CamelInternalProcessor.java:191) at org.apache.camel.processor.Pipeline.process(Pipeline.java:118) at org.apache.camel.processor.Pipeline.process(Pipeline.java:80) at org.apache.camel.management.InstrumentationProcessor.process(InstrumentationProcessor.java:77) at org.apache.camel.processor.RedeliveryErrorHandler.process(RedeliveryErrorHandler.java:448) at org.apache.camel.processor.CamelInternalProcessor.process(CamelInternalProcessor.java:191) at org.apache.camel.processor.Pipeline.process(Pipeline.java:118) at org.apache.camel.processor.Pipeline.process(Pipeline.java:80) at org.apache.camel.processor.CamelInternalProcessor.process(CamelInternalProcessor.java:191) at org.apache.camel.component.timer.TimerConsumer.sendTimerExchange(TimerConsumer.java:165) -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Handling-header-less-responses-tp5767502p5767567.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.