OCA login failure: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xb) was found (Doc ID 3063598.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 02, 2025

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Symptoms

When try to login into OCA client, see the following error in Java console. The error also is displayed in pop up window during login:

ERROR:

OCAMainWebStart.init(): PORT=<PORT>

OCAClientAsset.getInitialContext(): URL = t3://<IP_ADDRESS>:<PORT>/<ENV_ID>

OCAClientAsset.obtainSessionDocument(): sessionUrl = http://<IP_ADDRESS>:<PORT>/<ENV_ID>/OCA/SessionManager

[Fatal Error] :47016:28: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xb) was found in the element content of the document.

org.w3c.dom.DOMException: getDOMDocument() Exception! - An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xb) was found in the element content of the document.

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.app.SessionReplyReceiver.getDOMDocument(SessionReplyReceiver.java:69)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.app.SessionReplyReceiver.getReplyDocument(SessionReplyReceiver.java:22)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.OCAContainer.OCAClientAsset.obtainSessionDocument(OCAClientAsset.java:310)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.OCAContainer.OCAClientAsset.init(OCAClientAsset.java:194)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.OCAWidgets.OCAConsole.initializeSessions(OCAConsole.java:1054)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.OCAWidgets.OCAConsole.initConfig(OCAConsole.java:688)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.OCAWidgets.OCAConsole.<init>(OCAConsole.java:321)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.webstart.OCAMainWebStart.init(OCAMainWebStart.java:125)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.webstart.OCAMainWebStart.main(OCAMainWebStart.java:50)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 47016; columnNumber: 28; An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xb) was found in the element content of the document.

at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)

at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)

at architel.OCA.OCAClient.app.SessionReplyReceiver.getDOMDocument(SessionReplyReceiver.java:67)

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