RE: error reading request --please help

[Vasanth Krishnan Venkatachalam]

I just noticed one more thing: when i try to telnet to that port on the
command line, I'm connected and then right away disconnected, and the 
same error message appears in tomcat's window:

telnet> open vader 19000
Trying 128.195.1.4...
Connected to vader.ics.uci.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
vvenkata@vader%                     

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Vasanth Krishnan Venkatachalam wrote:

> Hi, i've started tomcat run. when i point my browser to
> 
> http://vader.ics.uci.edu:19000
> 
> i get a message in the window where tomcat is running. so obviously tomcat
> is detecting something, but it's generating this error:
> 
>  ContextManager: Error reading request, ignored - java.lang
> .NullPointerException
>         at
> org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnectio
> n(HttpConnectionHandler.java, Compiled Code)
>         at
> org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.j
> ava, Compiled Code)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java, Compiled Code)     
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michael Wentzel wrote:
> 
> > > i tried that...status quo
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gilles Laborderie wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Try to point your browser to
> > > > 
> > > > http://vader.ics.uci.edu:19000/examples/jsp/source.jsp
> > 
> > Start from the bottom up.  Get it working for
> > http://vader.ics.uci.edu:19000/ first so you know if 
> > tomcat is running at all first.  Then try some of the
> > core example jsp.  Then and only then should you try your
> > pages.
> > 
> > Another way of checking to see if tomcat is listening for
> > http request on port 19000(any particular reason for such
> > an extreme port selection?) is to telnet to the machine on
> > port 19000 then do a simple command line HTTP GET request
> > and see what comes back.
> > 
> > Sounds like tomcat isn't running though.  Make sure nothing
> > is using this port already and use tomcat run instead of
> > tomcat start(if that should be your case) so you can view
> > things as they are happening.
> > 
> > Just a few starting points.
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> > Michael Wentzel
> > Software Developer
> > Software As We Think - http://www.aswethink.com
> > 
> 
>