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Konstantin,

On 2/3/2011 8:21 PM, eurotrans-Verlag wrote:
> I noticed that when sending an invalid request to Tomcat 7.0.7 (e.g. without
> a HTTP method), Tomcat throws a NullPointerException, instead of responding
> with a "400 Bad Request".
> 
> If you do a request like this for example:
> 
> /invalidRequest HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost
> 
> Then Tomcat prints:
> 
> 04.02.2011 02:16:44 org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter service
> SCHWERWIEGEND: An exception or error occurred in the container during the
> request processing
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at
> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:409)

[snip]

> and closes the connection without sending a response.
> 
> Shouldn't Tomcat respond with "400 Bad Request" instead of throwing a NPE?
> ;)
> (I don't think this is a big issue, just wanted to note that behavior.)

Looks like a bug to me: please file this in Bugzilla. Testing against
Tomcat 6.0.x and mentioning the results would also be helpful.

- -chris
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