Mongrel users - Aug 2006 - Getting "Invalid HTTP format, parsing fails." from one client

Hi!

I am new to Mongrel but really like it so far.  We''ve been running a  
single instance for our test server for about a week now.   When one  
of our editors accesses the site, they receive a blank white page in  
Firefox and/or IE6/Win.

In Mongrel logs we see this:

Wed Aug 09 16:25:30 PDT 2006: BAD CLIENT (192.168.2.42): Invalid HTTP  
format, parsing fails.
Wed Aug 09 16:25:31 PDT 2006: BAD CLIENT (192.168.2.42): Invalid HTTP  
format, parsing fails.
Wed Aug 09 16:25:31 PDT 2006: BAD CLIENT (192.168.2.42): Invalid HTTP  
format, parsing fails.
Wed Aug 09 16:25:31 PDT 2006: BAD CLIENT (192.168.2.42): Invalid HTTP  
format, parsing fails.

No other computers experience this issue.  When I start Webrick, she  
can access the pages using both Firefox and IE6.

Does anyone have any clue as to what may be causing this, and is it  
possible to actually log the HTTP request details to a log file?  I  
tried running Mongrel with -B (debug) but found not much  useful info  
in the debug files to explain this behavior.

Any pointers much appreciated!

Thanks,
Konstantin

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Konstantin Gredeskoul
Senior Software Engineer
kig at blurb.com

Blurb, Inc.
580 California St, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94104

415.364.6338 (direct)
415.362.2078 (fax)

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On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:28 -0700, kigsteronline at mac.com
wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> I am new to Mongrel but really like it so far.  We''ve been running
a
> single instance for our test server for about a week now.   When one
> of our editors accesses the site, they receive a blank white page in
> Firefox and/or IE6/Win.  
If you have McAffee Security Center installed then you need to do two
things:

1) Install the 0.3.13.4 pre-release of mongrel:  gem install mongrel
--source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/

2) Contact McAffee and tell them why are they sending the aaaaaaaaaa:
++++++++ header since that does absolutely nothing at all and is pretty
suspicious.

Let me know if this works.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.railsmachine.com/ -- Need Mongrel support?

Zed,

I thought it had something to do with McAfee.  You are right, she is  
using their Security Center... That thing has gotten so unruly that  
we are all switching to Norton (another beast).  Ironic that anti- 
virus software often gets more intrusive than the viruses themselves :)

Thanks for the heads up.
Konstantin

On Aug 10, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Zed Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:28 -0700, kigsteronline at mac.com wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> I am new to Mongrel but really like it so far.  We''ve been
running a
>> single instance for our test server for about a week now.   When one
>> of our editors accesses the site, they receive a blank white page in
>> Firefox and/or IE6/Win.
>
> If you have McAffee Security Center installed then you need to do two
> things:
>
> 1) Install the 0.3.13.4 pre-release of mongrel:  gem install mongrel
> --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/
>
> 2) Contact McAffee and tell them why are they sending the aaaaaaaaaa:
> ++++++++ header since that does absolutely nothing at all and is  
> pretty
> suspicious.
>
> Let me know if this works.
>
> -- 
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://www.zedshaw.com/
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
> http://www.railsmachine.com/ -- Need Mongrel support?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mongrel-users mailing list
> Mongrel-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
Regards,
Konstantin
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On 8/10/06, kigsteronline at mac.com <kigsteronline at mac.com>
wrote:
>
> Zed,
>
> I thought it had something to do with McAfee.  You are right, she is using
> their Security Center... That thing has gotten so unruly that we are all
> switching to Norton (another beast).  Ironic that anti-virus software often
> gets more intrusive than the viruses themselves :)
>
Danzig wrote this song about McAfee security software in 1988:
http://darklyrics.com/lyrics/danzig/danzig.html#7

On 8/10/06, kigsteronline at mac.com <kigsteronline at mac.com>
wrote:
>
> Zed,
>
> I thought it had something to do with McAfee.  You are right, she is using
> their Security Center... That thing has gotten so unruly that we are all
> switching to Norton (another beast).  Ironic that anti-virus software often
> gets more intrusive than the viruses themselves :)
>
> Thanks for the heads up.
> Konstantin
My suggestion is try NOD32 (www.eset.com) instead of Norton :)

So far, been working with mongrel, rails, ruby on windows with NOD32
filtering HTTP and everything worked without problems.
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Zed Shaw wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:28 -0700, kigsteronline at mac.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> I am new to Mongrel but really like it so far.  We''ve been running
a
> single instance for our test server for about a week now.   When one
> of our editors accesses the site, they receive a blank white page in
> Firefox and/or IE6/Win.
>
> If you have McAffee Security Center installed then you need to do two
> things:
>
> 1) Install the 0.3.13.4 pre-release of mongrel:  gem install mongrel
> --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/
>
> 2) Contact McAffee and tell them why are they sending the aaaaaaaaaa:
> ++++++++ header since that does absolutely nothing at all and is pretty
> suspicious.
>
> Let me know if this works.
>
> --
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://www.zedshaw.com/
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
> http://www.railsmachine.com/ -- Need Mongrel support?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mongrel-users mailing list
> Mongrel-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
>
>
> Regards,
> Konstantin
> __________________________________________
> Blog on Tek, Art and Life @ http://tektastic.blogspot.com/
> Download hi-res mp3s @ http://www.polygroovers.com/
> Or order 2nd down-tempo album "Moods For Take Out"
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mongrel-users mailing list
> Mongrel-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
>
>

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