mod_jk - answers from appsrv often changes 'content-type' from text/xml to text/plain

Dear all,

We have a strange problem with mod_jk on my linux box (centos45 -
64bit).
We use mod_jk 1.2.25 with apache 2.0.52 (default config) and on my
clients I got an error msg like this:

> System.InvalidOperationException:
> Client found response content type of 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8', but

> expected 'text/xml'

Our configuration is like this (all systems running Centos45 x86_64):
Webserver with mod_jk -> Appserver with jboss 4.2 -> DB server


Our clients are posting data to a soap service (axis) running on jboss
and expect an answer in text/xml like this:

####
Response: [
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:54:59 GMT
Server:  Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.2.0.CR1 (build:
SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_0_CR1 date=200703051212)/Tomcat-5.5
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soap:Body
/></soap:Envelope> ] ####

but we very often got back this (sometimes the first 3 times the answer
is text/xml and ok but then switches to text/plain ... so it switches
always and the only workaround with this config is to restart the
webserver and do it again)

####
Response: [
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:44:55 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soap:Body
/></soap:Envelope> ] #####

We tried also to test it on a windows box (and mod_jk 1.2.22) with the
same results:

#####
Response: [
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:54:59 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) mod_jk/1.2.22
X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.2.0.CR1 (build:
SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_0_CR1 date=200703051212)/Tomcat-5.5
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soap:Body
/></soap:Envelope> ] ####

and switches to this response:

####
Response: [
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:55:32 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) mod_jk/1.2.22
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soap:Body
/></soap:Envelope> ] ####


Our client systems can only proper work with a response as 'content-type
text/xml'

The only solution we found to do is use mod_jk 1.2.19 - It also works
always when we go directly to jboss-tomcat port 8080 - We found also
this case description in the archive
http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@.../msg20475.html .


Do anyone have a solution to use it with mod_jk 1.2.25 ?


Thx and greetz, david


A sample config from mod_jk is below:

mod-jk.conf
#####
# Jakarta Tomcat Connector #

# Load mod_jk module
# Specify the filename of the mod_jk lib
  LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so
 
# Where to find workers.properties
  JkWorkersFile conf/workers.properties

# Where to put jk logs
  JkLogFile logs/mod_jk.log
 
# Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]
  JkLogLevel info
 
# Select the log format
  JkLogStampFormat  "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y]"
 
# JkOptions indicates to send SSK KEY SIZE
  JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories
 
# JkRequestLogFormat
  JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"
               
# Mount your applications
# JkMount /application/* loadbalancer
 
# You can use external file for mount points.
# It will be checked for updates each 60 seconds.
# The format of the file is: /url=worker # /examples/*=loadbalancer
  JkMountFile conf/uriworkermap.properties              

# Add shared memory.
# This directive is present with 1.2.10 and # later versions of mod_jk,
and is needed for # for load balancing to work properly
  JkShmFile /var/cache/httpd/jk.shm
             
# Add jkstatus for managing runtime data
  <Location /jkstatus/>
       JkMount status
          Order deny,allow
          Deny from all
          Allow from 127.0.0.1
  </Location>    

uriworkermap.properties
####
# Simple worker configuration file

# Mount the Servlet context to the ajp13 worker
/jmx-console=node1
/jmx-console/*=node1
/web-console=node1
/web-console/*=node1

/MCWeb=node1
/MCWeb/*=node1
/MC=node1
/MC/*=node1

workers.properties
####
# Define list of workers that will be used # for mapping requests
  worker.list=node1,status

# Define Node1
# modify the host as your host IP or DNS name.
  worker.node1.port=8009 ## used for jboss ##
  worker.node1.host=10.16.45.12
  worker.node1.type=ajp13
  worker.node1.socket_timeout=10
  worker.node1.socket_keepalive=False

# Status worker for managing load balancer
  worker.status.type=status

 








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