Re: Internal Server Error / DirectAction

Hi, Simon,

I suggest two things:

   * take a look at the network and Apache logs

   * if the request is getting through to your application, log the  
requests and responses.

Regards,
Jerry

On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Simon wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> i'm working on an interface to a external system which is posting  
> an xml file to our application. the external system http-post's the  
> file to a url, with the filename as the single parameter in the url  
> - eg:
>
> http://claney.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Handler.woa/wa/DirectAction/ 
> handler?filename=EBO_DETAIL_MM_35_0000000142.xml
>
> My handler action simply writes the file to disk, and looks like this:
>
> 	public WOActionResults handoffAction() {
> 		String result = "";
> 		try {
> 			String content = request().contentString();
> 			String filename = request().formValueForKey("filename").toString();
> 			BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("/Library/ 
> Handoffs/"+filename));
> 			out.write(content);
> 			out.close();
> 			result = "OK";
> 		} catch (Exception e) {
> 			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
> 			result = Utilities.getStackTrace(e);
> 			System.out.println(result);
> 		}
> 		Main pg = (Main)pageWithName("Main");
> 		pg.setResponseMessage(result);
> 		return pg;
> 	}
>
>
> However, the external system is reporting an Internal Server error:
>
> *****2006-04-05T09:07:26:5565 Info      NETWORK SERVICE@EVOLVIWEB03
> *****
> *****  3480 -  2773 Videcom.Utils.HttpHelper
> Sending to http://claney.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Handler.woa/wa/ 
> DirectAction/handoff?filename=EBO_DETAIL_MM_35_0000000142.xml
> *****2006-04-05T09:07:27:1502 Error      NETWORK SERVICE@EVOLVIWEB03
> *****
> *****  3480 -  2773 Videcom.TravelPackOnline.KernelServer.Transport
> Error when HTTPing file EBO_DETAIL_MM_35_0000000142.xml to http:// 
> claney.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Handler.woa/wa/DirectAction/handoff.  
> Exception = The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal  
> Server Error
>
>
> Unfortunately the external system is a supplier, and therefore I  
> have no access to their code (and to be honest their developers are  
> not being too helpful). there is nothing showing in the webobjects  
> logs.
>
> any ideas where i start to debug this ?
>
> thanks, simon
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