Read of HTTP Request POST parameters failed

[lowbk]

i wonder if anyone can advise me on this.

i have a form contains a long list of items. The form uses "post" method. After I press the submit button, I got an exception like this:


java.lang.RuntimeException: Read of HTTP Request POST parameters failed: read < content length
at com.iplanet.ias.web.connector.nsapi.NSAPIRequest.parseMultiByteParameters(NSAPIRequest.java:982)
at com.iplanet.ias.web.connector.nsapi.NSAPIRequest.parseParameters(NSAPIRequest.java:809)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.HttpRequestBase.getParameterNames(HttpRequestBase.java:779)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getParameterNames(RequestFacade.java:171)

 

[Diancecht]

Looks like a timeout, do you have a busy server?

Cheers,
Dian

 

[lowbk]

yes dian, it is a busy server (sun7 running on unix). so it is actually a timeout?? i am not the server administrator, but how to overcome it, as in what should i tell the administrator to do?

lowbk

 

[sedj]

The message " read < content length " looks like the HTTP request said to the server 'the content I am sending in the POST section is x long' - but the socket connection died before the server could read all the data.

This could be due to any TCP/IP layer problem - timed-out socket, the client dropping off the network before the send was complete, an overloaded TCP/IP stack in the kernel - anything really.

I would test it in a dev environment and see if you can replicate the error, and work up a solution or workaround for it.

Also, ask your network admins to monitor the number of TCP/IP connections - if you're reaching the max, you may be able to increase the default number for a given process.

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