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webMethods Knowlegebase : "java.lang.NULLPointException: null" after applying IS 9.5 SP1 CoreFix4 (1760425)

Troubleshooting


Problem

After customer apply FIX IS_9.5_SP1_Core_Fix4 to their test environment, the error log is full of only the following message. It occurs multiple times every second.

java.lang.NullPointerException: null

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.HTTPState.getBasicAuthenticatedUser(HTTPState.java:845)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.HTTPState.getAuthenticatedUser(HTTPState.java:812)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.HTTPState.processHeader(HTTPState.java:253)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.Dispatch.processHeader(Dispatch.java:268)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.Dispatch.run(Dispatch.java:365)

at com.wm.util.pool.PooledThread.run(PooledThread.java:119)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

After increasing the server logging for HTTP to trace, they see the following in server.log now.

2014-10-27 11:06:17.386 CDT [ISC.0039.0001D] POST /invoke/wm.tn/receive

2014-10-27 11:06:17.386 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] <-- Content-Type: text/xml

2014-10-27 11:06:17.386 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] <-- Authorization: wipro:****

2014-10-27 11:06:17.386 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] <-- Host: b2bqc.compucom.com:5081

2014-10-27 11:06:17.386 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] <-- Content-Length: 1195

2014-10-27 11:06:17.386 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] <-- Expect: 100-continue

2014-10-27 11:06:17.387 CDT [ISS.0012.0003T] Client did not provide a session ID

. Creating a new session e4b111602c92151d8b58b43f09016ad2.

2014-10-27 11:06:17.388 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] --> HTTP/1.1 500

2014-10-27 11:06:17.388 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] --> Set-Cookie: ssnid=e4b111602c921

51d8b58b43f09016ad2; path=/; HttpOnly

2014-10-27 11:06:17.388 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] --> Connection: close

2014-10-27 11:06:17.388 CDT [ISC.0038.0002D] --> Content-Length: 0

Anyone not sending a session identifier gets a HTTP response code of 500.

Version 9.5.1.0

Updates TNS_9.5_SP1_Fix5

IS_9.5_SP1_Core_Fix4

EstdCommonLib_7.1_Fix14

PIPTools_7-1_Fix6_95

Build Number 202

Document Location

Worldwide

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Modified date:
20 March 2025

UID

ibm17219998

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