JBWS3879TestCase gzip related CharConversionException ----------------------------------------------------- Key: JBWS-4085 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWS-4085 Project: JBoss Web Services Issue Type: Bug Components: jbossws-cxf Affects Versions: jbossws-cxf-5.2.0.Final Environment: env: wildfly-11 running in -secmgr mode. Reporter: r searls Priority: Minor Attachments: xJBWS3879TestCase-error-log-jbws-testsuite-default.log This only fails in -secmgr mode on wfly-11. It run in wfly-10 in -secmgr mode and in both wfly-10 and 11 in stnd mode. Here is the stacktrace of interest. The server log with more information is provided as an attachement. {code:java} Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0x8b (at char #2, byte #-1) at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.doCreateSR(WstxInputFactory.java:578) at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.createSR(WstxInputFactory.java:633) at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.createSR(WstxInputFactory.java:657) at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(WstxInputFactory.java:342) at __redirected.__XMLInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(__XMLInputFactory.java:143) at org.apache.cxf.staxutils.StaxUtils.createXMLStreamReader(StaxUtils.java:1725) ... 66 more Caused by: java.io.CharConversionException: Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0x8b (at char #2, byte #-1) at com.ctc.wstx.io.UTF8Reader.reportInvalidInitial(UTF8Reader.java:304) at com.ctc.wstx.io.UTF8Reader.read(UTF8Reader.java:190) at com.ctc.wstx.io.ReaderBootstrapper.initialLoad(ReaderBootstrapper.java:254) at com.ctc.wstx.io.ReaderBootstrapper.bootstrapInput(ReaderBootstrapper.java:134) at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.doCreateSR(WstxInputFactory.java:573) ... 71 more {code} In googling the exception there are references to data being pass as a gzip. These 2 are of interest https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35248465/issue-with-invalid-utf-8-sta... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19092341/push-web-service-invalid-utf...