[drakma-devel] Re: Strange response message calling http-request

Mon Nov 19 04:53:53 UTC 2007

After some investigation I starting to understand what's probably going on.
The server I am sending requests to is hosted by the Akamai service
and because my GET request sends a lot of data (I am sending SVG
glyphs information) they may consider it as some kind of DoS attack
and try to block it. That's just my guessing...

Andrew

On Nov 18, 2007 11:22 PM, Andrei Stebakov <lispercat at gmail.com> wrote:
> To be more precise, that's the response (some AkamaiGHost is mentioned
> here, could it be the culprit?):
>
> HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
> Server: AkamaiGHost
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 215
> Expires: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:16:16 GMT
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:16:16 GMT
> Connection: close
>
> "<HTML><HEAD>
> <TITLE>Bad Request</TITLE>
> </HEAD><BODY>
> <H1>Bad Request</H1>
> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
> Reference #7.ab0dd58.1195445776.0
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2007 10:41 PM, Andrei Stebakov <lispercat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sometimes I get the response like "Your browser sent a request that
> > this server could not understand". I am scratching my head where this
> > response might be coming from. Probably not from the server I am
> > sending a http-request to.
> > From what I could find on the net, this message might be coming from
> > an Apache server. I am using hunchentoot behind apache mod_proxy, but
> > drakma has nothing to do with it.
> > I'd appreciate any ideas where this message might be coming from or
> > what would be the best way to debug the problem.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Andrew
> >
>