Bug 62687

Summary:	WarURLConnection always returns -1 from getContentLength() and getContentLengthLong() which causes a 416 when request includes a Range header
Product:	Tomcat 8	Reporter:	Douglas Paul <3wvzs2636b>
Component:	Catalina	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	pwebb
Priority:	P2
Version:	8.5.x-trunk
Target Milestone:	----
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Douglas Paul 2018-09-07 01:45:37 UTC

WarURLConnection doesn't override the default implementations of getContentLength() and getContentLengthLong(), so it always returns -1.

In the context of a Spring Boot application, this has the effect of causing requests that have a Range header to return a 416 Range Not Satisfiable.

I originally reported this bug against Spring Boot (https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/14306) but the developers there suggested I report it here.

Specifically, Andy Wilkinson suggested that WarUrlConnection should override getContentLength() and getContentLengthLong() to delegate them to wrappedJarUrlConnection as is done for getLastModified(). (See bug 61125.)

Comment 1 Remy Maucherat 2018-09-11 09:24:17 UTC

Ok, this is reasonable. The fix will be in 9.0.13 and 8.5.35.

Comment 2 Douglas Paul 2018-09-12 00:34:55 UTC

Excellent, thanks!