Grinder/Apache issue

Hi All!

I recently ran into a problem while running a Grinder
script against Apache. The same script was succeeding
against IIS, but against Apache was throwing the following
exception:

2011/03/11 4:22:31 PM (thread 0 run 0 test 501): Aborted run due to
Java exception calling TestRunner
Java exception calling TestRunner
       File "C:\Testing\grinder\newuicreateprojectcreatetemplate1.py", line
152, in page5
       File "C:\Testing\grinder\newuicreateprojectcreatetemplate1.py", line
281, in __call__
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Premature EOF encountered
       at HTTPClient.StreamDemultiplexor.read(StreamDemultiplexor.java:300)
       at HTTPClient.RespInputStream.read(RespInputStream.java:155)
       at HTTPClient.HTTPResponse.readResponseData(HTTPResponse.java:1011)
       at HTTPClient.HTTPResponse.getData(HTTPResponse.java:515)

I got hold of the source, and discovered that line 300 of
StreamDemultiplexor.java was throwing the exception.

                       if (rcvd == -1)
                           throw new EOFException("Premature EOF encountered");

I commented out this code, rebuilt the Grinder jar, and
my script then executed successfully against Apache
with no failures.

The only difference I could find in the output returned
by Apache vs. IIS is that IIS uses two bytes, <CR><LF>
to denote the end of a line, while Apache only uses one
byte, <LF>. It seems to me that The Grinder is not taking
account of this difference.

Examining the code, I suspect the fault lies in lines
1010-1011 of HTTPResponse.java:

       final int maximumBytes =
         Math.min(Data.length - off, bandwidthLimiter.maximumBytes(off));

Or in the calculations preceding it.

I am now happy, I have a work-around, but I'm sure
the community would appreciate a proper fix.

Regards,
Steven.

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