Well, what it means is that Tomcat saw a '%' character in either the query string or the POST body that wasn't followed by two two hex digits (0-9 union a-f). It is possible that it is simply a character encoding problem, but there isn't enough info here to really say what the problem is.
"Jacob Rhoden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > We are having an elusive issue on one of our production servers using > Tomcat 6.0.14, every few minutes we are getting a request that results in > the following exception: > > Oct 25, 2007 12:04:23 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Parameters > processParameters > WARNING: Parameters: Character decoding failed. Parameter skipped. > java.io.CharConversionException: isHexDigit > at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.convert(UDecoder.java:88) > at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.convert(UDecoder.java:49) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Parameters.urlDecode(Parameters.java:412) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Parameters.processParameters(Parameters.java:394) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Parameters.processParameters(Parameters.java:346) > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParameters(Request.java:2470) > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getParameter(Request.java:1040) > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getParameter(RequestFacade.java:355) > ...... > > Has anyone seen anything like this before, and know how to handle it? It > appears Firefox 2.0.0.8 browsers and IE browsers are both passing POST > commands that are resulting in this exception. > > A quick search on google reveals a bunch of other people who dont know > what it is, and well, the source code that throws the exception. > > Best Regards, > Jacob > > -- > _________________________________________________ > Jacob Rhoden > Application Architect > Systems Development and Integration > University of Melbourne > > Phone: +61 3 8344 2884 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
