Exception: java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many times?? Please help!

[Praveen Kumar Jayaram]

Hi All,

Am trying to call a .NET webservice hosted on Sharepoint server using a CXF client (Generated using SOAPUI tool automatically).
To access this webservice one needs to authenticate using NTLM....

Am using JCIFS and HTTPClient frameworks for providing NTLM authentication and JRE is 1.5.0_12.
When the webservice is invoked by this CXF client am getting ProxyException and it is as follows:

ERROR [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-1] com.honeywell.mdb.MDBClient (writeLinearFiles:80) - Could not send Message.
ERROR [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-1] com.honeywell.mdb.MDBClient (writeLinearFiles:81) - javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Could not send Message.
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:135)
at $Proxy39.getAnsysExportContents(Unknown Source)
at com.honeywell.mdb.client.MDBAnsysExportServiceSoap_MDBAnsysExportServiceSoap_Client.getData(MDBAnsysExportServiceSoap_MDBAnsysExportServiceSoap_Client.java:85)
at com.honeywell.mdb.MDBClient.getMDBData(MDBClient.java:154)
at com.honeywell.mdb.MDBClient.getLinearData(MDBClient.java:91)
at com.honeywell.mdb.MDBClient.writeLinearFiles(MDBClient.java:52)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.springframework.util.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:275)
at org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean$MethodInvokingJob.executeInternal(MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean.java:272)
at org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.QuartzJobBean.execute(QuartzJobBean.java:86)
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:202)
at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:529)
Caused by: java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many times (20)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1223)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1217)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:906)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponseInternal(HTTPConduit.java:2166)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponse(HTTPConduit.java:2057)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.close(HTTPConduit.java:1982)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.AbstractConduit.close(AbstractConduit.java:66)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.close(HTTPConduit.java:637)
at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:62)
at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:236)
at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:483)
at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:309)
at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:261)
at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy.invokeSync(ClientProxy.java:73)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:124)
... 14 more
Caused by: java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many times (20)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1178)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:367)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponseInternal(HTTPConduit.java:2081)
... 25 more

Here is the code:

public String getData() throws Exception{
    	URL wsdlURL = MDBAnsysExportService.WSDL_LOCATION;
    	ResourceBundle resBundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resources/settings");
    	//Set the jcifs properties
		jcifs.Config.setProperty("jcifs.smb.client.domain", resBundle.getString("Sharepoint.Domain"));
		//jcifs.Config.setProperty("jcifs.netbios.wins", "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");
		jcifs.Config.setProperty("jcifs.smb.client.soTimeout", "300000");
		jcifs.Config.setProperty("jcifs.netbios.cachePolicy", "1200"); //20 minutes
		jcifs.Config.setProperty("jcifs.smb.client.username", resBundle.getString("Sharepoint.User"));
		
		String encryptionKey = "123456789012345678901234567890";
	    String encryptionScheme = StringEncrypter.DES_ENCRYPTION_SCHEME;
        StringEncrypter stringEncrypter = null;
        try{
        	stringEncrypter = new StringEncrypter(encryptionScheme, encryptionKey);
        	jcifs.Config.setProperty("jcifs.smb.client.password", stringEncrypter.decrypt(resBundle.getString("Sharepoint.Password")));
        }catch(Exception e){
        	logger.error("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
        	throw e;
        }
		
        Authenticator.setDefault(new MyAuthenticator()); //overriding the default authenticator
        //Register the jcifs URL handler to enable NTLM
	   jcifs.Config.registerSmbURLHandler();
		
		MDBAnsysExportService ss = new MDBAnsysExportService(wsdlURL, SERVICE_NAME);
        MDBAnsysExportServiceSoap port = ss.getMDBAnsysExportServiceSoap();
        
		// HTTPClient configuration
		// Turn off chunking so that NTLM can occur
		Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(port);
		HTTPConduit http = (HTTPConduit) client.getConduit();
		HTTPClientPolicy httpClientPolicy = new HTTPClientPolicy();
		httpClientPolicy.setConnectionTimeout(36000);
		httpClientPolicy.setAllowChunking(false);
		http.setClient(httpClientPolicy);

        System.out.println("Invoking getAnsysExportContents...");
        java.lang.String _getAnsysExportContents_strDocLibName = "Ansys Export";
        java.lang.String _getAnsysExportContents__return = port.getAnsysExportContents(_getAnsysExportContents_strDocLibName);
        System.out.println("getAnsysExportContents.result=" + _getAnsysExportContents__return);
        return _getAnsysExportContents__return;
    }

Please someone help is fixing this issue.

[Praveen Kumar Jayaram]

Any clue for this issue?
Any issues in JRE 1.5.0_12 version???

Thanks in advance.

[William Brogden]

My first guess would be that you have somehow created an endless loop of redirects.

Bill

[Praveen Kumar Jayaram]

How do you I find where thing are getting looped?
The program runs fine with JRE 1.6... When it is moved to JRE 1.5.0_12, faced so many jar dependencies.
After resolving all compile and run time dependencies I get the ProxyException when calling the .Net webservice

Any clues now?

Regards,
Praveen

[William Brogden]

The program runs fine with JRE 1.6

Just one of those tiny tiny details you neglected to mention in the original post.

The obvious advice - go back to JRE 1.6.

[Praveen Kumar Jayaram]

Thanks for the suggestion.