JSP getting downloaded

[sreenivas arumilli]

Hi All,

I am not sure whether I pick up the right category to raise this ticket.

My problem is some times JSP getting downloaded instead of loading. When i check the downloaded JSP it contains full of junk data(like ascii values). TO resolve this we are restarting the web server for couple of times.

It's not happening every time but happening interpretively.

Can someone guide me where I need to look into it.

Sreenivas A

[Koen Aerts]

Sounds like a problem with your web/app server itself. Since you didn't mention what that is, I can only say that first have a look at the web site of your server (i.e. for tomcat go to tomcat.apache.org) and look for any known issues for the specific version you're using. Maybe upgrading will fix it, or there may be other known workarounds.

[Rob Spoor]

Is the content-type set correctly? Browsers usually use the response's content-type to determine what to do with it. "text/plain" will be shown as plain text, "text/html" as an HTML page, etc.

[sreenivas arumilli]

Thanks for your reply..

Koen :I am using Apache/2.2.3- webserver,jboss-4.2.3.GA-application servers

Rob: content type i set was "text/html" only. the following content was showing in downloaded file.


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[Koen Aerts]

sreenivas arumilli wrote:Koen :I am using Apache/2.2.3- webserver,jboss-4.2.3.GA-application servers

What mod_jk version are you using? I remember having some weird issues in the past that were solved by downloading, compiling and deploying the latest version of mod_jk (tomcat/http connector): http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/

[sreenivas arumilli]

Hi,

We are connecting through mod_proxy_ajp.

Sreenivas A

[Rob Spoor]

It looks like somewhere, binary data is outputted. Since you created only HTML pages (right?), that means that the problem must be found somewhere else. The mod_proxy plugin would be my first guess. Do you get the same problem when servicing the same requests directly from Tomcat (i.e. using port 8080)?

[sreenivas arumilli]

Thanks for your response...

We are unable to replicate this by connecting application server directly(as you said from 8080).From this we can confirm that our application server providing the correct response.

So some where in webserver is converting this to binary data..

can you help me out here please.

[Bear Bibeault]

Binary data? So you don't mean that the JSP is being sent to the browser unprocessed, but that the browser is receiving garbage data? Is any of it recognizable?

I'd advise using an HTTP monitoring tool so that, when this happens, you can see what the response body and response headers are. This could hold valuable clues to what's transpiring.

[sreenivas arumilli]

Hi ,

I checked this and found that in headerTransfer-Encoding is chucked(during this issue). For normal scenario it's value showing the size. Is this would the issue?

How can see the response of jboss is there any parameter I can turn on?

Or else any parameter I can turn on in webserver level to see all the responses?

[Koen Aerts]

sreenivas arumilli wrote:I checked this and found that in header Transfer-Encoding is chucked(during this issue). For normal scenario it's value showing the size. Is this would the issue?

It shouldn't but perhaps this scenario might be hitting a bug in mod_proxy_ajp or the http server itself.

[sreenivas arumilli]

How can I find the bug in apache module..Is there anyway to debug this.

[Koen Aerts]

Check their bug list or try a newer/older version and see if it fixes the problem.

[sreenivas arumilli]

Where can I find the buglist?

I googled it but haven't got relevant information.

[sreenivas arumilli]

We observed JSP download is not happening in 2.2.22.

But the problem is we are RHEL5 only supporting upto 2.2.3 version. so no RPM's for 2.2.22.

We tried to compile the HTTPD source and it keep on telling some dependencies problem.

Is there any way to install without compiling source code?