Re: Autocomplete exception blank query parameter.

2014-02-27 Thread Barry Books
I get these also. It would be nice if they were logged as a WARN so it would be easy to ignore them in production. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Lance Java wrote: > Some serverside actions (eg autocomplete) expect a well formed request > which may require some request parameters to be present

Re: Autocomplete exception blank query parameter.

2014-02-26 Thread Lance Java
Some serverside actions (eg autocomplete) expect a well formed request which may require some request parameters to be present. As you can imagine, a bot can run regular expressions and hit anything the looks like a URL. I think it's fine to ignore crawlers from error logging. It's difficult to do

Re: Autocomplete exception blank query parameter.

2014-02-26 Thread George Christman
Thanks for the reply lance. What does the actual exception mean? Does is it mean a request is being set with a missing parameter to the autocomplete component? I vaguely remember seeing this a long time ago while writing a custom autocomplete component. As far as the logs, I'm hosting the app on

Re: Autocomplete exception blank query parameter.

2014-02-26 Thread Lance Java
Sounds like a webcrawler / bot to me. Do you have the apache logs? You could check the user agent header. As a fix, Google for the list of known bots and their user agent headers and customised tapestry's exception reporting so that exceptions are not logged for crawler user agents.

Autocomplete exception blank query parameter.

2014-02-26 Thread George Christman
Hi guys, I'm using tapestry 5.4-beta 3 and I have a keyword search on my website using the auto complete mixin. I'm seeing the following exception appear in my logs 100's of times. I have been unable to reproduce it, so im assuming it is happening as a result of bot activity, but I can not confirm