Bug 37121 - HTTP Static Partial Content Bug
Summary: HTTP Static Partial Content Bug
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat Native
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Library (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
URL:
Keywords: RFC
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-10-17 16:19 UTC by V. Karthik Kumar
Modified: 2014-02-17 13:58 UTC (History)
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Description V. Karthik Kumar 2005-10-17 16:19:41 UTC
I observed this with a binary file of size: 26278368 bytes ...

When I threw this particular HTTP Request: 

GET /Image.sub HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: */*
Referer: http://localhost/crap
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98)
Range: bytes=26276541-
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close

i.e. last 1827 bytes or so, Tomcat failed to send _ANY_ data...

However, it worked with a larger range of bytes before the end (say: 26000000-)
or so.. 

I tried testing the same file, with the same request on HTTPD 2.0.55 ... It
worked just fine, and gave me the last few bytes.

Hence, I am reporting this as a bug.

Please look into it.
Comment 1 Remy Maucherat 2005-10-17 17:50:32 UTC
Are you using the HTTP APR connector ?
Comment 2 V. Karthik Kumar 2005-10-17 21:12:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you using the HTTP APR connector ?

Yes. (the statically compiled tcnative-1)
Comment 3 Remy Maucherat 2005-10-18 00:05:18 UTC
I can already tell you that telnet as a client on localhost has issues on
Windows when doing sendfile (for whatever reasons, sendfile doesn't like it, and
returns an error code). I don't think this is a bug in Tomcat.
Comment 4 V. Karthik Kumar 2005-10-18 01:07:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I can already tell you that telnet as a client on localhost has issues on
> Windows when doing sendfile (for whatever reasons, sendfile doesn't like it, and
> returns an error code). I don't think this is a bug in Tomcat.

It's not about telnet ... it didn't work on my usual file-downloading client ...
and oh, it DID work with telnet and my client with the 26000000- range. It's not
a problem with telnet or sendfile as such... I suspect something more.
Comment 5 Remy Maucherat 2005-10-18 10:23:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> It's not about telnet ... it didn't work on my usual file-downloading client ...
> and oh, it DID work with telnet and my client with the 26000000- range. It's not
> a problem with telnet or sendfile as such... I suspect something more.

You can suspect all you want, I'll be looking at facts. So far, it seems to be
going to WONTFIX land.
Comment 6 V. Karthik Kumar 2005-10-18 16:43:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > It's not about telnet ... it didn't work on my usual file-downloading client ...
> > and oh, it DID work with telnet and my client with the 26000000- range. It's not
> > a problem with telnet or sendfile as such... I suspect something more.
> 
> You can suspect all you want, I'll be looking at facts. So far, it seems to be
> going to WONTFIX land.

Fine. Put up with it and stay with Non-HTTP-Compliant Land :P
Comment 7 V. Karthik Kumar 2005-10-18 16:43:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > It's not about telnet ... it didn't work on my usual file-downloading client ...
> > and oh, it DID work with telnet and my client with the 26000000- range. It's not
> > a problem with telnet or sendfile as such... I suspect something more.
> 
> You can suspect all you want, I'll be looking at facts. So far, it seems to be
> going to WONTFIX land.

Fine. Put up with it and stay in Non-HTTP-Compliant Land :P
Comment 8 Remy Maucherat 2005-10-18 16:50:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Fine. Put up with it and stay with Non-HTTP-Compliant Land :P

You know, I had figured already you were a whiner.
Comment 9 Shankar Unni 2005-10-19 00:09:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > Fine. Put up with it and stay with Non-HTTP-Compliant Land :P
> You know, I had figured already you were a whiner.

Guys, can we keep this professional?

Karthik: what Remy is saying is that he needs more than just a "suspicion", as
in a documented, **self-contained**, test case which demonstrates the problem. 
Comment 10 Remy Maucherat 2005-10-19 01:20:08 UTC
The issue is now fixed (incorrect length parameter passed to the sendfile call),
as submitted by Mladen Turk.
Comment 11 V. Karthik Kumar 2005-10-19 16:17:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> The issue is now fixed (incorrect length parameter passed to the sendfile call),
> as submitted by Mladen Turk.

It's not closed dammit remm.. If the number of bytes asked for is <4KB (at the
end of the file), it doesn't work.

It's tested. It's with and without the APR binary. It's still a bug
Comment 12 V. Karthik Kumar 2005-10-19 16:20:13 UTC
Sorry about that. thanx for fixing. :-) Next time remm... please be more
considerate while replying.