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.