Unable to read response with Content-Type: multipart/mixed

Products

• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

Unable to read response from backend when the header is  " multipart/mixed; boundary=xxxxxxxxxxxxx " the policy fails with a error " 4006  Error reading Response" in the http routing assertion.

When we try  to capture the response with "${response.mainpart}" its a empty value and there is no response body.

The response is a valid multipart we can see the content in postman  when sending the request directly to the backend.

Environment

Gateway 10.x 11.x

Cause

When disabling the gateway multipart handling by adding the following  parameter   

com.l7tech.common.mime.enableMultipartProcessing=false  to the /opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default/etc/conf/system.properties

 We can read the response and there is no error logged for the policy  but the response content looks like garbage .

 

Resolution

The problem in this case was caused by the fact that the multipart response was encrypted using Brotli ,the request was send with a accept-encoding  header which contains  "gzip,deflate.br".

The response back has a content-encoding set to "br" saying it is a Brotli-compressed response the gateway does not support Brotli compression and treat it as gzip , this corrupt the body

and failed the gateway to read back the response and handle it as multipart which is causing the  " 4006  Error reading Response" error. 

To prevent the backend to send the response in Brotli  , modify the accept-encoding  header for the request  to contain only "gzip,deflate".

You can use the  Manage Transport Properties/Headers assertion to change the accept-encoding header from the incoming request before it is passed to the routing assertion .