Share: A JSONObject text must begin with '{'

jevon — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:06:30 GMT

Hi,I have been trying to get Alfresco 4.0.b working on an existing Tomcat 7.0.22 on Windows XP using MySQL. I can get the explorer application to work fine, but I can't get the Share application to work at all.Tomcat is running on port 8081, but I have followed the instructions at https://wiki.alfre

Re: Share: A JSONObject text must begin with '{'

jevon — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:13:13 GMT

I installed Wireshark to debug the network traffic, and I think I found the cause of the problem (#123456 ): we are behind a HTTP proxy, and Share is not respecting these settings – in particular, to NOT use the proxy for localhost: (In this log, 130.123.172.212 == localhost)

130.123.172.212 -> proxy: GET http://localhost:8081/alfresco/s/api/admin/restrictions?guest=true HTTP/1.1
proxy -> 130.123.172.212: HTTP/1.1 201 Moved Permanently
   Location: http://130.123.172.212
130.123.172.212 -> proxy: GET http://130.123.172.212 HTTP/1.1
proxy -> 130.123.172.212: either 200 OK or 404 Not Found, depending on the proxy‍‍‍‍‍

Share should not even be calling the web proxy, since 130.123.172.212 == localhost. It's picking up a web proxy location from somewhere, but I have no idea where.

This exact problem was reported in ALF-1518 and apparently was fixed, but I haven't found how to set or override the proxy. In particular, none of these methods work:

* Through Control Panel/Internet Options
* Through Control Panel/Java/Network Settings
* Through TOMCAT_HOME/conf/catalina.conf
* Through TOMCAT_HOME/bin/setenv.bat
* Through manually setting JAVA_OPTS in System/Runtime Properties
* Manually aliasing 130.123.172.212 to localhost in windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts

I know that these methods don't work because I am trying to manually set a different proxy on a different IP. So. How do I get Share to respect proxy settings?

Edit: A list of properties that I've set: -Dhttp.proxyHost=xxx -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=localhost -Dhttp.proxySet=true

Re: Share: A JSONObject text must begin with '{'

jevon — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:58:57 GMT

After learning out how to debug Alfresco in Eclipse, I found the root of the problem: I had the following property in my catalina.properties file:

http.nonProxyHosts="localhost"‍

The quotes were not being removed by the code. This line should instead be

http.nonProxyHosts=localhost‍

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