[jcifs] jcifs 1.2.6 and HTTP 1.0 keep-alive connection

[Michael B Allen]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:35:10 +0100 (CET)
Sanglard Fabien <sanglardf at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> I was working with jcifs 1.2.6/Tomcat 4.1.3 and i
> noticed that jcifs no longer
> supported Keep-alive Connection for HTTP 1.0. ( This
> feature is required by google Appliance servers).
> 
> I took a look to the following post:
> 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/jcifs/2004-November/004334.html
> 
> ...in which Johan suggested to set the content length
> to 0 during the NTLM authentication process.
> 
> Just to make sure, i opened the class
> "jcifs.http.NtlmSsp" and noticed that modification
> requiered to make it works
> was not present.
> 
> So, I modified the following:
> 
> if (msg != null && msg.startsWith("NTLM ")) {
> 	...
> to
> 
> if (msg != null && msg.startsWith("NTLM ")) {
> 	resp.setContentLength(0);
> 	...
> 
> and it is now working perfectly.
> 
> I guess someone removed that during an update or it
> was bugging other servlet implementation.

No, I think this just slipped through the cracks. But like the post you
site I think it should be after the setStatus call. Actually looking
at NtlmHttpFilter.java I think there's another place where we should
probably setContentLength(0).

I'll add this to The List.

Mike