Invalid Last-Modified header
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Key: WFLY-4709
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4709
Project: WildFly
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Web (Undertow)
Affects Versions: 8.2.0.Final
Environment: Windows Server 2008
Reporter: Davy De Durpel
Assignee: Stuart Douglas
Fix For: 9.0.0.CR2, 10.0.0.Alpha3
After 2 months of use Wildfly suddenly started to send an invalid Last-Modified header.
Normally it should be in the format:
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:35:55 GMT
But sometimes it sends:
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:35:55 CEST
Or even:
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:35:55 CEST GMT
The URLConnection.getLastModified() method cannot handle these 2 last formats as it uses
an old and deprecated Date.parse(..) method.
A restart of the service fixes the issue for a few hours after which it reappears but not
for all requests. We switched back to JBoss 7.1.1 and the issue disappeared completely so
we're pretty sure that it's a bug in WildFly. No updates were done to windows,
java and Wildfly that could have triggered the issue. We noticed the issue because we
have a java applet running at the customer side. We use URLConnection to download some
files based on the last modification date of these files. Browsers don't seem to be
affected by the issue.