Not sure if this will help but I thought I'd pass it on. I experienced some problems with missing POST parameters. I'm not sure where the problem lay but I was using apache 2, tomcat 5.5, mod_ajp_proxy and dwr. I upgraded to tomcat 6 using mod_proxy and NIO and have not seen the problem since.
Chris. On 8/27/07, M4N - Arjan Tijms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Ben Souther wrote: > > >One thing that you've go on your side, as far as isolating the problem > >is concerned, is that Tomcat is a busy project and has thousands of > >users. If it had a bug that caused it to miss or drop form parameters > >hundreds or thousands of apps would be breaking right now and this, the > >dev list, and bugzilla would be getting flooded with reports. > > > > > I absolutely agree with you. It's the exact same line of reasoning that > went on during our internal discussions about this problem. > > However, the thing is that by far not all post parameters are dropped. I > happened to stumble about it at first when inspecting the log files > manually for some other problems. There was a log line that showed an > empty post was done, for a page of which I knew this was impossible. I > did some grepping on the logs and discovered a few hundred of occasions > where it happened. Between thousands upon thousands of requests > something like this might go unnoticed for a long time. > > When post parameters are dropped, most users would either see nothing > happening and simply click again, or some error page comes up, they use > the back button and click again. > > >The fact that they're not, is a pretty good indicator telling you that > >the problem is not with Tomcat. If it is a problem with Tomcat, you're > >doing something very rare to get this bug to surface. > > > > > Indeed. I wonder what that could be. We're running on a quad core > server. Maybe it's some race condition? > > Kind regards, > Arjan Tijms > > -- > It's a cult. If you've coded for any length of time, you've run across > someone from this warped brotherhood. Their creed: if you can write > complicated code, you must be good. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
