Midlet crashes with Buffer overflow

[mopfattn]

Sometimes on the Nokia 6230 the midlet crashes with the message:

Buffer overflow in getStringContentsSafely()

Does anyone know what this message means or when this method is called?

[doctordwarf]

Look like a bug in Nokia implementation

[berrysxxx]

I get this consistently when trying to open connections in one thread and doing other things in other threads.

It seems to occur during the connection opening phase.

Using 6230

Anyone know a fix?

[jwentink]

I have the same problem on a 6310i, does anyone already has an answer?

[Scalc]

Hello,

I have the same problem when trying to make an Http connection. Error messages are:

Buffer overflow in getStringContentsSafely()

Warning. Traffic View: Listing of TCP/UDP Sent traffic is set to off (see Filters)

Warning. Traffic View: Listing of TCP/UDP Received traffic is set to off (see Filters)


Does anyone have a solution ?

Thank you very much

Jerome

[dcrocha]

Can we see the code?

Daniel

[john_vaudin]

I had this problem. In my case it was due to one of the HTTP headers being too large.

httpConnection.setRequestProperty("customHeader", bigString);

where bigString was about 1K.

John Vaudin

[glennbach]

I, too, get the TCP/UDP error messages, were you able to find a fix for it?

Thanks!
Glenn

[rak_eshz]

Hi all,
When started my application after accessing the net work,
same error is getting me also "buffer overflow in get string contents safely () " is displaying when selected the details of this error.
if any idea plz share .


regards
rakesh

[balagopalks]

@rakesh,
Have you checked the HTTP headers as mentioned in the previous post by John?

Regards
Gopal

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[rak_eshz]

hi all,
anyone got any idea about getStringContentsSafely()

if have plz share urgent.


regards
rakesh

[nicenouman]

berrysxxx Posted

" get this consistently when trying to open connections in one thread and doing other things in other threads."

if you have two threads running simulateneouly then you have to be a little careful. First of all problem the way i see it is, if you are using resources in one thread and then you use the same resources in another thread then problem may come when any one thread is trying to access a resource which hasnt been released by other thread. in this case exception do occur like overflow buffer or internal error. so what u can do manage your threads you can set piorities or make sure that if one thread is still using some resource which is being required by another thread then first thread should wait.

if you are not using any threads whatsoever then check your http headers.

[marcelruff]

Hi,

i get the Buffer overflow in getStringContentsSafely()
with my Nokia 6230i, the same code runs fine with Sony k320i
and in the emulator.

How can i track this down, is there any workaround available?

Thanks
Marcel

[mariozorz]

Hi everyone

I have the exact same problem and it really seems it's due to a large chunk of bytes being sent by the client on one of the HTTP headers.

I'll try to handle it by chopping down the headers or something. I'll let you know!

[...]

Yes it was clearly solved by placing the data I needed to send over the network in several http headers. Apparently series 40 implementation has some static buffer that is overrun around 512 bytes.
It would be wise to make several tests as to see how many headers can be placed there. Anyway most data should be sent over HTTP POST, but that's exactly what I wanted to avoid, because some servers (IIS for instance) could answer with some HTTP 100 Continue responses which is not handled by the phone's native implementation and I don't want to do it myself. Anyone has solved this yet?

Regards,
Mario