Recently I always encounter a "Unexpected end of file from server" Exception at CXF client side. it seems this exception is caused by the CXF Serverside has unexcepted release the http connection ;
I tried some effort to to use a simple test case to regenerate such a exception; Following is a simple test case which will cause such a exception. keypoint of the test case: 1)MTOM enabled; 2)Using Jetty-Transport at serverside, and using SUN JDK's http client at client side; 3)the service logical is simple: first consume all attachment and close it; then wait for a long time (about 10 miniutes); In practice, there is no such a service which will block for so long time, but in the simple test case, I must use such a long time to force such a exception occurs; 4)set the client side 's receiveTime to a infinite time(almost) to avoid receive time out exception. then the client will block to wait service , but after about 7 minutes a ""Unexpected end of file from server" Exception will raised at client side; Other key points I have tried: 1)At first I guess maybe this is the jetty-server's problem: I guess it will release connection silently while the servlet-handler execute too long time; But unfortunately it 's not so . Because I tried another simple test case, which doesnt generate such a exception . The only difference is: there is no attachment in xml data; Also the service will wait a very long time( 10minutes, 20minutes I have tried) . And the client will blocking util service returned; Ps: the stack of the Exception is : org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Could not send Message. at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:64) ... Caused by: java.net.SocketException: SocketException invoking http://localhost:9000/service/moreattachmentsrpcliteral: Unexpected end of file from server ... at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.mapException(HTTPConduit.java:1385) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.close(HTTPConduit.java:1370) ... Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:763) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:626) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:760) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:626) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:983) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:367) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponseInternal(HTTPConduit.java:1490) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponse(HTTPConduit.java:1448) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.close(HTTPConduit.java:1356) ... 35 more
