“javax.servlet.ServletException: non-HTTP request

Question

My jboss is throwing undescriptive error while trying to run my application (spring mvc). It deploys ok, and this exception doesn't tell me anything useful so I don't really know what to do. I can't debug , can't do anything really :

    13:00:01,262 INFO  [ServerImpl] JBoss (Microcontainer) [5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_1_0_GA date=200905221053)] Started in 2m:13s:790ms

**Started successfully**

While running the application from the browser this happens :

13:00:09,456 ERROR [[appServlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet appServlet threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: non-HTTP request or response
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:818)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:235)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:190)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:598)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

Answer 1

Try removing servlet-api jar from your WAR file.

Answer 2

If you are using Maven, you can just set the scope of the servlet-api to provided.

Answer 3

This gets thrown in HttpServlet.service(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) when the parameters can't be cast to HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse respectively.

That means one of two things:

• the parameters are of the wrong type (unlikely) or
• some filter is using the wrong copy of those types, loaded with a wrong classloader (for example if you deliver your own copy of servlet-api-x.x.jar with your webapp).