SA-17013

Summary

Calling a REST service from Pega results in a Connection reset. Able to connect to this REST service outside of Pega.

Error Messages

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:208)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:134)
at com.ibm.jsse2.a.a(a.java:244)
at com.ibm.jsse2.a.a(a.java:35)
at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.a(qc.java:189)
at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.a(qc.java:513)
at com.ibm.jsse2.e.read(e.java:15)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.fillBuffer(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:149)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer.fillBuffer(SocketInputBuffer.java:110)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.readLine(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:264)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultResponseParser.java:98)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:252)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:281)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:247)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:219)
at com.pega.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:298)
at com.pega.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:125)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:645)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:464)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:825)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:759)
at com.pegarules.generated.activity.ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_ea5a601f5c30c4d8bb2e5da269e20397.step5_circum0(ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_ea5a601f5c30c4d8bb2e5da269e20397.java:1274)

Steps to Reproduce

Invoke the REST Connector.

Root Cause

A defect or configuration issue in the operating environment. The load balancer was closing the connection due to the request exceeding a request-header limit when utilizing a base64-encoded SAML token. The Pega function, Default:EncodeBase64 was adding numerous linebreak characters in to its encoded output. The additional line breaks were causing the request header count to appear to exceed the maximum allowed.

Resolution

Perform the following local-change: 

Make an updated EncodeBase64 function by following the instructions in the below article to remove the linefeeds and then invoke the REST service from Pega.

https://pdn.pega.com/support-articles/base64encode-password-includes-crlf-and-fails-when-read