StringIndexOutOfBoundsException When Parsing HTTP Request Header (Doc ID 987973.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

A servlet is deployed into 10.1.3.1 OC4J. When getting header attributes of an HTTP request;
 it fails with the following exception: 

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
    at java.lang.String.checkBounds(String.java:368)
    at java.lang.String.(String.java:404)
    at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindHttpServletRequest.newISOString(EvermindHttpServletRequest.java:1154)
    at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindHttpServletRequest.getHeaders(EvermindHttpServletRequest.java:1264)
    at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindHttpServletRequest.getHeaders(EvermindHttpServletRequest.java:1208)
    at _test__header._jspService(_test__header.java:56)
    at com.orionserver.http.OrionHttpJspPage.service(OrionHttpJspPage.java:59)
    at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspPageTable.compileAndServe(JspPageTable.java:701)

This exception happens when invoking the getHeaders () method of the javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest  interface.

Cause

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