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Sean,

On 2/7/19 14:01, Sean Dawson wrote:
> Hello, we're using Tomcat 8.5_35 on Linux (CentOS7) and Windows
> (2016 Server and above) and here and there we see this in the
> logs...
> 
> org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process Error
> parsing HTTP request header Note: further occurrences of HTTP
> header parsing errors will be logged at DEBUG level. 
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid character found in
> method name. HTTP method names must be tokens at 
> org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractNioInputBuffer.parseRequestLine(Abstr
actNioInputBuffer.java:232)
>
>  I can provide the full stack trace if needed. But we've determined
> it arises due to requests like this (from the access logs)...
> 
> "-" 400 -
> 
> I don't know how that happens. Maybe hacking attempt?

What is the source IP? Many monitoring systems and load-balancers use
weird requests like that, so it might not be an attack.

- -chris
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