Re: Request.getParameter(String s) doesn't parse parameters

On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 2:37=E2=80=AFPM Nelson Page via users
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> First time mailing on this list, please let me know what I can improve.
>
> I've run into a case where
> org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getParameter("some_parameter")
> no longer results in the parameters getting parsed.
>
> We're on tomcat 9.0.107, using HTTP/2, the `content-length` header is
> not being set, the `content-type` header is set to
> `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`, and the HTTP method is `POST`.
>
> So I think what happens is in
> https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/9.0.x/java/org/apache/catalina/conn=
ector/Request.java#L3094
> the `len` variable is set to -1, and we fall out in the `if` statement
> below it.
>
> Is this expected behavior?

Probably intended for [email protected] rather than httpd.