265214 - 400 bad request when clicking any forum or topic (Thema) in the list

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[hubert wackenhut]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Sample error-report when try to view a forum or topic:
---<cut here>---8<------------------------------------

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Cookie: NewBBLastVisit=1098268288;
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NewBBLastVisit=1097853735;
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zportal_session=2507db7c7086b7912af04dc335ab40e6; PHPSESSID=2507db7c708

Apache/df-exts 1.1 Server at thunder.ispgateway.de Port 80

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. view URL: http://zaurus.help4free.de/html/modules/news/
2. try to view the forum Software 
3. Error 400 Bad Request is displayed in browser window

Actual Results:  
see point 3. steps to reproduce or details

Expected Results:  
show the content of the forum database

i m not sure, but it could have worked correct for the 1st time.
after PC has been booted, FF has been startet, URL (details 1.) has been
entered and a forum has been selected. But i m not able to reproduce this.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Worksforme on:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

Comment 2

[Eric Martin]

Having no problems

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041019
Firefox/0.10.1

Comment 3

[Mikkel Lauritsen]

I see what appears to be the same problem on the front page of 
www.mozillazine.org:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Cookie: browse=basic; UserType=press; ASPSESSIONIDAQTSBQDR=MHP[...]; 
CFTOKEN=81950300; ASPSESSIONIDQQSCSADB=KLH[...]
--- cut ---

What puzzles me is that apparently cookies set by other servers are included in 
the request as well?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 
Firefox/1.0RC1

Comment 4

[Mikkel Lauritsen]

In addition, clearing all cookies has made the problem disappear -
www.mozillazine.org now works perfectly.

Apparently the Bugzilla server had problems as well, since I was unable to add
the previous comment using Firefox. I tried a couple of times, and in most cases
the server just didn't reply at all but I have seen a 500 Internal Error as
well. Clearing the cookies has made this problem disappear too.

So, to summarize, it seems as if Firefox basically sends all cookies in the HTTP
request and not just those set by the relevant server.

Comment 5

[Scott Eade]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I'm seeing something very similar and I can reproduce it at will.

Occasionally when I surf to one of my sites I get a blank page.  If I view the
source it contains just the html and body opening and closing tags with no
content (four tags in all).  If I look in the Apache Httpd access log I see a
400 response code.  I have a number of sites running from the same machine, some
are served by Apache Tomcat (behind Apache Httpd) and others are served directly
by Httpd (e.g. PHP based applications).

What I am finding is that if I log into a specific PHP based application the
applications served by Tomcat from the same virtual host no longer render (a 400
results from every request) - note that the PHP application and other PHP
applications that are not served from Tomcat all continue to work fine, as do
other virtual hosts running on the same machine (even those applications served
by the same Tomcat instance).

The application that appears to trigger the problem for me is eGroupWare.  In
particular when I login it sets a cookie with the following details:

       Name: domain
    Content: default
       Path: /
   Send For: Any type of connection
    Expires: at end of session

If I manually delete this cookie, or log out from eGroupWare (which causes this
cookie to be deleted) the web applications served by Tomcat suddenly start
responding correctly again.

Is there any further information I can provide to assist with tracking down this
bug?

Thanks,

Scott

Comment 6

[Scott Eade]

Note also that logging in into eGroupWare creates a few cookies but only the one
indicated causes the problem to occur.

Scott

Comment 7

[Scott Eade]

Out of curiocity I tried this in Internet Explorer - it exhibits the same
behaviour.  for this reason I am inclined to believe my problem is more likely
to be an issue with Apache Httpd or Tomcat.

Did the other people that could reproduce this problem try different browsers?

Scott

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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