HttpSender sends an empty body in ACRA 5.11.1

[aloz77]

Describe the bug
After update to ACRA 5.11.1 the request body (HTTP POST content) sent by HttpSender is empty.

Expected behavior
The request body contains all information about the crash. No issues with ACRA 5.11.0

Code to reproduce

ACRA.init(this, new CoreConfigurationBuilder()
                   .withBuildConfigClass(BuildConfig.class)
                   .withReportFormat(StringFormat.KEY_VALUE_LIST)
                   .withPluginConfigurations(
                           new ToastConfigurationBuilder()
                                   .withText(getString(R.string.crash_toast_text))
                                   .build()
                           )
                   .withPluginConfigurations(
                           BuildConfig.DEBUG ?
                           new LimiterConfigurationBuilder()
                                   .withPeriod(1)
                                   .withPeriodUnit(TimeUnit.DAYS)
                                   .withOverallLimit(250)
                                   .withExceptionClassLimit(100)
                                   .withStacktraceLimit(50)
                                   .withFailedReportLimit(50)
                                   .withIgnoredCrashToast("App stopped working again")
                                   .build() :
                           new LimiterConfigurationBuilder()
                                   .withPeriod(7)
                                   .withPeriodUnit(TimeUnit.DAYS)
                                   .withOverallLimit(25)
                                   .withExceptionClassLimit(10)
                                   .withStacktraceLimit(5)
                                   .withFailedReportLimit(5)
                                   .withIgnoredCrashToast("App stopped working again")
                                   .build()
                   )
                   .withPluginConfigurations(
                           new HttpSenderConfigurationBuilder()
                                   .withConnectionTimeout(8000)
                                   .withDropReportsOnTimeout(true)
                                   .withUri(getCrashReportUrl())
                                   // Disable it by config in order to enable it in the custom HttpSender
                                   .withEnabled(false)
                                   .build()
                   )
                   .withReportContent(fields)

@AutoService(ReportSenderFactory.class)

public class MyCrashSenderFactory implements ReportSenderFactory {

    @NonNull
    public ReportSender create(@NonNull Context context, @NonNull CoreConfiguration config) {
        return new HttpSender(config, HttpSender.Method.POST, StringFormat.KEY_VALUE_LIST, getCrashReportUrl());
    }

    @Override
    public boolean enabled(@NonNull CoreConfiguration coreConfig) {
        return true;
    }
}

Version

• Android: 12
• ACRA 5.11.1 and 5.11.2

[F43nd1r]

How did you determine that the body is empty? In my testing the body is correctly there in both ACRA logs and what the server reveices.

[aloz77]

I'm watching what the HTTP server receives.

[F43nd1r]

Is your http server unable to handle chunked requests? That's the only relevant change in that version

[aloz77]

It's standard nginx/PHP-FPM. I will check about chunked requests.

[aloz77]

Not sure which issue we are running now exactly in. But there have been different issues with FastCGI/PHP-FPM and chunked transfer-encoding in HTTP requests with different web servers in the past. Check here and there:

• https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63366
• https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57087
• https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,292380,292380
• https://serverfault.com/questions/624897/getting-a-chunked-request-through-nginx

Before I try to reconfigure/fix the server components, is there a way to disable chunked request by configuration of ACRA?

[F43nd1r]

Before I try to reconfigure/fix the server components, is there a way to disable chunked request by configuration of ACRA?

Not yet, but I guess if it makes issues it should be