Request.updateCounters causes a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException

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Issue

  • We sometimes see exceptions like the following for requests:
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 1234
    at java.lang.String.checkBounds(String.java:401)
    at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:442)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.toStringInternal(ByteChunk.java:514)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.toString(StringCache.java:315)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.toString(ByteChunk.java:507)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.MessageBytes.toString(MessageBytes.java:207)
    at org.apache.coyote.RequestInfo.updateCounters(RequestInfo.java:156)
    at org.apache.coyote.Request.updateCounters(Request.java:518)
    at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:461)
    at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProtocol$AjpConnectionHandler.process(AjpProtocol.java:385)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:451)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)
    • Apache httpd
    • mod_jk

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