Mongrel users - Jul 2006 - Bad Client Errors

I''ve gone through the mailing list archives and looked through all the
docs
I could find but I still can''t figure out exactly what''s going
on with my
Mongrel that it gives the following error:

[Timestamp]: BAD CLIENT (127.0.0.1): Invalid HTTP format, parsing fails

I''m running Cygwin 1.5.20-1, Ruby 1.8.4, and WinXP. I''d
appreciate any help
on getting it up and running.
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On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:05 -0400, Russell Norris wrote:
> I''ve gone through the mailing list archives and looked through all
the
> docs I could find but I still can''t figure out exactly
what''s going on
> with my Mongrel that it gives the following error:
> 
> [Timestamp]: BAD CLIENT ( 127.0.0.1): Invalid HTTP format, parsing
> fails
> 
> I''m running Cygwin 1.5.20-1, Ruby 1.8.4, and WinXP. I''d
appreciate any
> help on getting it up and running. 
Mongrel uses a very correct parser when processing HTTP 1.1 requests.
If it says "BAD CLIENT" then I''ve found it''s always
right.  Not saying
Mongrel''s perfect, it''s just a bi-product of using a parser
generator
based on the RFC''s grammar rather than hand-coding.

If you''re running Nagios then stop.  Nagios is utter and total garbage
and can barely get the TCP/IP right let alone the HTTP.

If it''s something else where you see these then you to reproduce it and
do a protocol dump with Ethereal (it runs on windows).  Once you get the
dump, go to where you see these bad client errors and see if you can do
Analyze->Follow TCP Stream.  This''ll tell you exactly what mongrel
is
getting and it''ll show you what the error is.

I''d be curious to see what''s doing the connection.  Let me
know.


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

Wow. Most of what you''ve said was really over my head. I was just
running a
quick Mongrel server on my desktop to test/run a Rails app I''m working
on.
Good news: I don''t [know how to] use Nagios. Bad news: I don''t
[know how to]
use Ethereal either. I''m going to investigate it though. I was just
running
Mongrel and using Firefox to pull up the page. It usually works fine when
I''m running the normal Windows Mongrel.

You''re too smart for me. For real. :)

Hope Ethereal can give me more clues and thanks for replying so quickly.

On 7/12/06, Zed Shaw <zedshaw at zedshaw.com>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:05 -0400, Russell Norris wrote:
> > I''ve gone through the mailing list archives and looked
through all the
> > docs I could find but I still can''t figure out exactly
what''s going on
> > with my Mongrel that it gives the following error:
> >
> > [Timestamp]: BAD CLIENT ( 127.0.0.1): Invalid HTTP format, parsing
> > fails
> >
> > I''m running Cygwin 1.5.20-1, Ruby 1.8.4, and WinXP.
I''d appreciate any
> > help on getting it up and running.
>
> Mongrel uses a very correct parser when processing HTTP 1.1 requests.
> If it says "BAD CLIENT" then I''ve found it''s
always right.  Not saying
> Mongrel''s perfect, it''s just a bi-product of using a
parser generator
> based on the RFC''s grammar rather than hand-coding.
>
> If you''re running Nagios then stop.  Nagios is utter and total
garbage
> and can barely get the TCP/IP right let alone the HTTP.
>
> If it''s something else where you see these then you to reproduce
it and
> do a protocol dump with Ethereal (it runs on windows).  Once you get the
> dump, go to where you see these bad client errors and see if you can do
> Analyze->Follow TCP Stream.  This''ll tell you exactly what
mongrel is
> getting and it''ll show you what the error is.
>
> I''d be curious to see what''s doing the connection.  Let
me know.
>
>
> --
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://www.zedshaw.com/
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
> http://www.railsmachine.com/ -- Need Mongrel support?
>
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