Randomly null value in "accept-language" header

[Alice Moyon <alice.moyon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Sorry for my bad english.

I'm working on portlet integration into K-Portal, a portal solution,  
which is based on Pluto for portlet implementation.
Two portlets are loaded in my page, and an exception occurres randomly  
to one of the two portlets (sometimes one portlet, sometimes the other)  
:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at  
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequest.parseLocales(CoyoteRequest.java: 
2457)
        at  
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequest.getLocale(CoyoteRequest.java: 
1032)
        at  
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequestFacade.getLocale(CoyoteRequestFac 
ade.java:363)
        at  
javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper.getLocale(ServletRequestWrapper.java 
:306)
        at  
com.univ.portail.KportalPortletFragment.service(KportalPortletFragment.j 
ava:264)
        at  
com.univ.services.ServiceThread.determinerContenuPortlet(ServiceThread.j 
ava:272)
        at  
com.univ.services.ServiceThread.lancerExecutionService(ServiceThread.jav 
a:119)
        at com.univ.services.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:87)
        at  
EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown  
Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

The problem is that request.getHeader("accept-language") is null, as  
you can see when i add logs into portal container :

11:04:09,910 [Thread-45]  DEBUG - header accept-language:null ( root )
11:04:09,910 [Thread-51]  DEBUG - header  
accept-language:fr-fr,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3 ( root )
11:04:09,910 [Thread-45]  ERROR -  ( root )
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at  
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequest.parseLocales(CoyoteRequest.java: 
2457)
        at  
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequest.getLocale(CoyoteRequest.java: 
1032)
        at  
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequestFacade.getLocale(CoyoteRequestFac 
ade.java:363)
        at  
javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper.getLocale(ServletRequestWrapper.java 
:306)
        at  
com.univ.portail.KportalPortletFragment.service(KportalPortletFragment.j 
ava:264)
        at  
com.univ.services.ServiceThread.determinerContenuPortlet(ServiceThread.j 
ava:272)
        at  
com.univ.services.ServiceThread.lancerExecutionService(ServiceThread.jav 
a:119)
        at com.univ.services.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:87)
        at  
EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown  
Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
11:04:09,910 [Thread-51]  DEBUG - appel portlet  
PERTE_IDENTIFIANTS_occ_43584544_1 ( root )

Two threads for two portlets. One is working, the other get a null  
value. And the most times, the two portlets work.

The environment is :
Tomcat 5.0.28
Apache 2.2.4
Unix (debian 4 or sourcemage, problem is the same)

So, here is the important part. When I install environment with Apache  
2.0.59, i do not get this problem...

My question is : Is Apache in cause, or is the container for portlets  
in cause ? And if it is the container, what does it do wrong ? It  
simply get a header from browser request...

Thanks in advance for your answer

Alice Moyon
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Kosmos
e-mail : alice.moyon@xxxxxxxxx
tél : 02 40 20 47 95

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