ProtocolException: Expected ':status' header not present

android retrofit retrofit2 okhttp3 protocolexception
Eldho Paul Konnanal picture Eldho Paul Konnanal · Oct 18, 2017 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

Retrofit network calls fails with a Protocol Exception suddenly in a working app. The app was working till yesterday and today all the network calls fails. The calls works fine with HTTP but fails with HTTPS.

Here is the logs,

java.net.ProtocolException: Expected ':status' header not present
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.Http2xStream.readHttp2HeadersList(Http2xStream.java:262)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.Http2xStream.readResponseHeaders(Http2xStream.java:145)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.CallServerInterceptor.intercept(CallServerInterceptor.java:53)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:67)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at codmob.com.campuswallet.app.ApiClient$1.intercept(ApiClient.java:66)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.connection.ConnectInterceptor.intercept(ConnectInterceptor.java:45)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:67)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.cache.CacheInterceptor.intercept(CacheInterceptor.java:109)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:67)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.BridgeInterceptor.intercept(BridgeInterceptor.java:93)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.intercept(RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.java:124)
10-18 14:59:01.103 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:67)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.RealCall.getResponseWithInterceptorChain(RealCall.java:170)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.RealCall.access$100(RealCall.java:33)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.RealCall$AsyncCall.execute(RealCall.java:120)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at okhttp3.internal.NamedRunnable.run(NamedRunnable.java:32)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1133)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:607)
10-18 14:59:01.104 30746-30746/? W/System.err:     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:761)

Answer

Eldho Paul Konnanal picture Eldho Paul Konnanal · Oct 19, 2017

After hours of mess, finally got a solution. Updating Retrofit and Okhttp3 libraries to the latest version did the trick for me.

compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.9.0'

compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'

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