413 Request Entity Too Large - web service client trying to call JBoss EAP through Apache Web Server / mod_jk

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Issue

  • Wireshark trace shows that web server is rejecting with the response below, but the same error is not present either in JBoss EAP logs or in the apache logs in debug mode.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
    HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large\r\n
        [Expert Info (Chat/Sequence): HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large\r\n]
            [Message: HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large\r\n]
            [Severity level: Chat]
            [Group: Sequence]
        Request Version: HTTP/1.1
        Status Code: 413
        Response Phrase: Request Entity Too Large
    Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:49:36 GMT\r\n
    Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat)\r\n
    Connection: close\r\n
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n
    \r\n
 [ajp-10.10.10.10-8009-1] DEBUG (org.jboss.ws.core.soap.MessageFactoryImpl) - createMessage: [contentType=multipart/related; 
    boundary=MIMEBoundary_31c97d726c91ad383489007f7b814a12eee5a08a363091bf; 
    type="application/xop+xml"; 
    start="<0.21c97d726c91ad383489007f7b814a12eee5a08a363091bf@apache.org>"; 
    start-info="application/soap+xml"; action="urn:processNPCMsg"]

 [ajp-10.10.10.10-8009-1] DEBUG (org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpMessage) - Received 0 18
[ajp-10.10.10.10-8009-1] TRACE (org.jboss.ws.core.soap.MessageFactoryImpl) - createMessage

 [ajp-10.10.10.10-8009-1] DEBUG (org.jboss.ws.metadata.umdm.EndpointMetaData) - Configure SOAPBinding
[ajp-10.10.10.10-8009-1] ERROR (org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS) - SOAP request exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: multipart/related stream invalid, no root part was found
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.attachment.MultipartRelatedDecoder.decodeMultipartRelatedMessage(MultipartRelatedDecoder.java:171)
  • How to increase the maxPostSize value from default 2MB to 10MB to upload larger files?

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 5.1.1
  • Red Hat Apache Web Server
    • 2.2.15
  • mod_proxy

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