>>> Issue: Few packets do not reach the application servlet but tomcat receives
>>> them. The missing packets reach the HTTP layer and thereafter they
>>> disappear.
>>>
>>> This issue is not frequent but occasionally consistent. For the POSTs of
>>> missing packet I am not able to find the entry in localhost_access_log.
>>> How do you know that the packet reaches tomcat if there is no matching
>>> entry in localhost_access.log? Does all other access appear in this file?
>>
>> I could see the packet in the wireshark capture and it has reached HTTP
>> layer so I thought it has reached Tomcat; I may be wrong here. Also, as far
>> as my observation, every hit to the application URLs was getting logged in
>> local access log.
>>
>
> And is there anything in the Tomcat error logs ?
> (Or the Windows Event logs)
>
> A HTTP request might be discarded by Tomcat for various reasons (*)
> before it is ever mapped to an application.
> In such a case, there is probably also no log of the request in the Access
> log.
> But I would expect some error message in the Tomcat error logs.
>
> (*) Invalid HTTP request, incomplete request, etc..
> If there are really packets being lost somewhere, then for POST
> requests the request size would not match the Content-length header, and that
> may be one of these cases.
>
> I must say that the "packets lost" hypothesis sound a bit iffy to me.
> This is TCP, which should detect missing packets and cause a client
> connection abort if it was the case. The invalid HTTP request being rejected
> by Tomcat sounds more probable to me.
> i
> I could not find anything (Exception) in tomcat std error log file or any
> file in the log folder. But I have not checked the Windows event logs. Will
> do that.
>
> Regarding the content length, there is no mismatch as I have validated using
> Wireshark and also the same packets(In terms of structure) have reached the
> application previously.
>
> W.r.t. the last point, I could see TCP ACK for the received packet in the
> wireshark and the packet has reached HTTP layer which goes missing thereafter.
>
> What do you mean exactly by "the packet has reached HTTP layer" ?
Are you using the word "packet" in the TCP/IP sense here, or do you mean "HTTP
request"
(composed of one or more TCP/IP packets) ?
Does one complete HTTP POST request (headers and body) fit into one TCP packet ?
And how exactly do you recognise that some particular packet (or HTTP request)
has not been processed by the application ?
Do these disappearing requests have some special characteristic that allows you
to distinguish them from other requests to the same application ?
Or is it so that all the requests for that same application "disappear" ?
Do all the ones that disappear have something in common, that other requests
(which do not
disappear) do not have ?
Suggestion : paste the content of your Tomcat's "server.xml" file in your next
message, after removing any private information such as host name or IP,
passwords etc.
(Do not send it as attachment, this list often removes them).
>
Actually, I meant "HTTP request has reached HTTP Layer".
I could recognise the miss as some noticeable activity will happen upon the
reception of the request in the application because of which it is easy to
identify the misses in this case when compared to other requests.
For the query regarding "All requests", all requests do not disappear. More
importantly, sometimes all requests reach the application when I POST same set
of requests. To give a rough picture, 1-2 requests fail in a set of 45-50
requests and this behaviour varies [The request which failed in my one test
cycle succeeds in another cycle].
I could see this in Tomcat 7.0 and Tomcat 7.0.42.
Here is the server.xml details:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!--
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contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
-->
<!-- Note: A "Server" is not itself a "Container", so you may not
define subcomponents such as "Valves" at this level.
Documentation at /docs/config/server.html
-->
<Server port="8105" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<!-- Security listener. Documentation at /docs/config/listeners.html
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener" />
-->
<!--APR library loader. Documentation at /docs/apr.html -->
<!---->
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"
SSLEngine="on" />
<!--Initialize Jasper prior to webapps are loaded. Documentation at
/docs/jasper-howto.html -->
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />
<!-- Prevent memory leaks due to use of particular java/javax APIs-->
<Listener
className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
<Listener
className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
<Listener
className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />
<!-- Global JNDI resources
Documentation at /docs/jndi-resources-howto.html
-->
<GlobalNamingResources>
<!-- Editable user database that can also be used by
UserDatabaseRealm to authenticate users
-->
<Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
description="User database that can be updated and saved"
factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />
</GlobalNamingResources>
<!-- A "Service" is a collection of one or more "Connectors" that share
a single "Container" Note: A "Service" is not itself a "Container",
so you may not define subcomponents such as "Valves" at this level.
Documentation at /docs/config/service.html
-->
<Service name="Catalina">
<!--The connectors can use a shared executor, you can define one or more
named thread pools-->
<!--
<Executor name="tomcatThreadPool" namePrefix="catalina-exec-"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="4"/>
-->
<!-- A "Connector" represents an endpoint by which requests are received
and responses are returned. Documentation at :
Java HTTP Connector: /docs/config/http.html (blocking & non-blocking)
Java AJP Connector: /docs/config/ajp.html
APR (HTTP/AJP) Connector: /docs/apr.html
Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080
-->
<!-- -->
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" allowTrace="true"/>
<!-- A "Connector" using the shared thread pool-->
<!--
<Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool"
port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" />
-->
<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
<!-- An Engine represents the entry point (within Catalina) that processes
every request. The Engine implementation for Tomcat stand alone
analyzes the HTTP headers included with the request, and passes them
on to the appropriate Host (virtual host).
Documentation at /docs/config/engine.html -->
<!-- You should set jvmRoute to support load-balancing via AJP ie :
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" jvmRoute="jvm1">
-->
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
<!--For clustering, please take a look at documentation at:
/docs/cluster-howto.html (simple how to)
/docs/config/cluster.html (reference documentation) -->
<!--
<Cluster className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster"/>
-->
<!-- Use the LockOutRealm to prevent attempts to guess user passwords
via a brute-force attack -->
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">
<!-- This Realm uses the UserDatabase configured in the global JNDI
resources under the key "UserDatabase". Any edits
that are performed against this UserDatabase are immediately
available for use by the Realm. -->
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
</Realm>
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true">
<!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" />
-->
<!-- Access log processes all example.
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
</Server>
Thanks.
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