These lines are from my jserv.log file, i.e., the engine's logfile. The startup appears to be working: [04/26/1999 11:50:12:385 CDT] JServ is starting... [04/26/1999 11:50:12:386 CDT] WARNING: connection authentication is disabled [04/26/1999 11:50:12:425 CDT] Connection allowed from localhost/127.0.0.1 [04/26/1999 11:50:12:426 CDT] Listening on port 8007 accepting 50 maximum connections [04/26/1999 11:50:12:463 CDT] Creating Servlet Zones [04/26/1999 11:50:12:463 CDT] Servlet Zone example initializing... [04/26/1999 11:50:12:463 CDT] - Configuration file: /export/home/jserv/Apache-JServ-1.0b3/example/example.properties [04/26/1999 11:50:12:500 CDT] Initialisation timeout: 10 seconds [04/26/1999 11:50:12:500 CDT] Destroy timeout: 10 seconds [04/26/1999 11:50:12:500 CDT] Session timeout: 1800 seconds [04/26/1999 11:50:12:500 CDT] Session check frequency: 30 seconds [04/26/1999 11:50:12:502 CDT] Autoreload on zone file changes: true [04/26/1999 11:50:12:502 CDT] Autoreload on classfile changes: true [04/26/1999 11:50:12:506 CDT] Default initArgs: {} [04/26/1999 11:50:12:518 CDT] Servlet Zone example initialization complete The shutdown appears to be working: [04/26/1999 11:44:20:537 CDT] Connection from localhost/127.0.0.1 [04/26/1999 11:44:20:566 CDT] Initializing servlet request [04/26/1999 11:44:20:566 CDT] Reading request data [04/26/1999 11:44:20:578 CDT] Will read 3 bytes for this line [04/26/1999 11:44:20:580 CDT] Read: s15 [04/26/1999 11:44:20:581 CDT] Signal: 15 [04/26/1999 11:44:20:581 CDT] All data read. [04/26/1999 11:44:20:582 CDT] Received signal 15 [04/26/1999 11:44:20:583 CDT] Terminating JServ... [04/26/1999 11:44:20:584 CDT] Closing the server socket But, whenever I try to execute the example/Hello servlet, all I get is: [04/26/1999 11:53:33:428 CDT] Connection from localhost/127.0.0.1 [04/26/1999 11:53:33:465 CDT] Initializing servlet request [04/26/1999 11:53:33:465 CDT] Reading request data { approx. 30 secs elapse here } [04/26/1999 11:54:05:147 CDT] Malformed request data: Malformed request: java.io.IOException: Malformed Request: reading line length [04/26/1999 11:54:05:153 CDT] Sending response headers. [04/26/1999 11:54:05:155 CDT] Status: 400 Bad Request [04/26/1999 11:54:05:156 CDT] Servlet-Error: Malformed data send to JServ It boils down to this-- why does the shutdown successfully read the request data, but the attempt to run a simple servlet is a bust? ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives and Other: <http://java.apache.org/main/mail.html/> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]