Apache CXF client "connection reset" with long requests
cxf, java, jax-ws, soap
Solution
The problem is caused by the chunking mechanism which gets enabled by CXF when the request size is beyond a threshold and which is not supported on server side.
This chunking can be disabled programmatically but there is a bug in CXF which makes that programmatic configuration is not taken into account in case of SSL connection.
The solution is to disable chunking via a spring configuration file.
Problem
I have a SOAP web service. When calling it from SoapUI the request works well, whatever the size of the message content. If I make the same requests from Apache CXF client code it works with small requests but I get a "connection reset" if my message content is too long, with the following exception: ``` Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(Unknown Source) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readDataRecord(Unknown Source) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(Unknown Source) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(Unknown Source) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(Unknown Source) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponseInternal(HTTPConduit.java:1606) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponse(HTTPConduit.java:1532) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.close(HTTPConduit.java:1440) ... 37 more ``` Any idea on what could cause it or how to debug it?