[AXIS-2027] org.apache.axis.transport.HTTPSender throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.1
• Environment: Windows XP Professional; Tomcat 4.1.31; Java 1.4.2_04-b05
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Genhart
• Created: 31/May/05 17:55
• Updated: 01/Jun/05 04:46
• Resolved: 01/Jun/05 04:46

Description

While requesting a webservice through HTTP POST, I'm getting an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Debugging into this, it turned out that there is a bug in org.apache.axis.transport.HTTPSender.writeToSocket(...).

On line 331 there is a code sequence like this:

if (posting) {
String contentType;
if (mimeHeaders.getHeader(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE) != null)

{ contentType = mimeHeaders.getHeader(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE)[0]; } else { contentType = reqMessage.getContentType(msgContext.getSOAPConstants()); }
header2.append(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE)
.append(": ")
.append(contentType)
.append("\r\n");
}

In my case mimeHeaders.getHeader(...) returned an empty String array, which causes the bug on the next line. Changeing that code to test for empty sting arrays as well fixes the problem:

if (posting) {
String contentType;
Object[] test = mimeHeaders.getHeader(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE);
if (test != null && test.length > 0) { contentType = mimeHeaders.getHeader(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE)[0]; }

else

{ contentType = reqMessage.getContentType(msgContext.getSOAPConstants()); }

header2.append(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE)
.append(": ")
.append(contentType)
.append("\r\n");
}