Issues faced with Mule-2.2.1

Mule is one of the open-source(commercial support available) ESB. These are some of the showstoppers I faced while I used mule in one of my projects. (Things may get resolved in future versions though).

1. It does not support multiple headers. So, what it means is that, If you're doing some kind of login and your server sends multiple Set-Cookie header to mule in response then mule will ignore all but last Set-Cookie header. To add to the trouble, you'll read RFC-2109 and believe that concatenating all the cookies(using comma as separator) inside single Set-Cookie header will resolve it but it'll not as browsers don't honor the spec in this regard.



2. You can't set virtual host/port on a http request made from mule. So, if you want to use mule as a proxy to transparently pass the host header to the end server, well it will not.



3. Do not use MuleMessage.getPayloadAsString() in case your payload is Input-Stream, as it will read the whole stream ignoring Content-Length "property" completely and that will result in issues if your response was a http message with large binary content. Content-Length might also get messed up in the end response.



4. It is completely unintuitive, you will end up writing too much code inside xml configuration.