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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 When using XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP with mod_perl the HTTP request can't be deserialized by SOAP::Transport::HTTP due to a bug in the SOAP::Lite package. An error message is returned by the XMLRPC web service along the lines of: Application failed during request deserialization: no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at /usr/lib64/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 This bug was introduced upstream in version 0.710.08 and fixed in upstream version 0.713. Full details of the bug and patch can be found in the CPAN bug report at: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=58538 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an XMLRPC web service 2. Configure Apache to use mod_perl on the service URL 3. Make an XMLRPC request Actual Results: XMLRPC Fault returned, Application failed during request deserialization: no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at /usr/lib64/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 Expected Results: Successful web service call. https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=58538
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Created attachment 602118 [details] upstream pach applied on our version
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Cause XMLRPC requests can fail if the environment value MOD_PERL is defined. Consequence XMLRPC request fail. Fix The standard read instead of sysread is now used, when environment MOD_PERL is defined. Result XMLRPC request doesn't fail.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1388.html