Sending an HTTP POST request, but JBOSS receives an empty GET request

Question

I have a jsp page running in a jboss 4.2.2 server. In the jsp im trying to print the headers of a http post request using methods like request.getMethod() and request.getHeaderNames(). Im sure that the request is a http post because im generating it from another program but what the jsp print is a http get request instead, the content-length printed is -1 and the headers printed doesnt match the headers im sending.

The code of the application that generate the request is, more or less, like this:

    URL url = new URL(the_url);
    HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    con.setDoOutput(true);
    con.setDoInput(true);
    con.setRequestMethod("POST");
    con.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "application/timestamp-query");
    con.setRequestProperty("Content-length", String.valueOf(data.length));
    out = con.getOutputStream();
    out.write(data);
    out.flush();

The code of the application where im trying to print the request header is:

    <%@page import="java.io.InputStream"%>
    <%@page import="java.util.Date"%>
    <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    pageEncoding="UTF-8"
    import="java.util.Enumeration"
    import="java.io.File"
    import="java.io.FileOutputStream"
    import="java.util.Date"%><%
    File logfile = new File("/home/tsa/logfile");
    FileOutputStream log_os = new FileOutputStream(logfile);
    Enumeration header_names = request.getHeaderNames();
    log_os.write(("cont-len: "+request.getContentLength()+"\r\n").getBytes());
    log_os.write(("method: "+request.getMethod()+"\r\n").getBytes());
    while (header_names.hasMoreElements()) {
        String name = (String)header_names.nextElement();
        log_os.write((name+": "+request.getHeader(name)+"\r\n").getBytes());
    }
    log_os.close();%>

HTTP data I should be receiving:

    POST / HTTP/1.1
    Content-type: application/timestamp-query
    User-Agent: Java/1.7.0_05
    Host: localhost:8080
    Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
    Connection: keep-alive
    Content-Length: 51

    MDECAQEwITAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBSg8UkKINAhHJl7RLw1fhly3quK4wYGBACPZwEBAQH/

HTTP data I'm receiving:

    User-Agent: Java/1.7.0_05
    Host: 192.168.56.101:8080
    Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
    Connection: keep-alive

    The method reported is GET and the Content-Length: -1

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

I had the same issue. I updated to JDK 1.7.0_u21 and the problem went away.