Databases
StackOverflow2013
Postsdbo
POApp Engine : 400 - Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request
Body
 

Note that there are some explanatory texts on larger screens.

plurals
  1. POApp Engine : 400 - Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request
    text
    copied!<p>I have been running into this error for the last 3 or 4 weeks making requests to app engine. Certain requests - especially HTTP DELETE requests, are having this error returned from the google server.</p> <p>Others have reported the same error - with 3 outcomes I can locate</p> <ol> <li>It is caused by stale cookies - clear your cookies and it runs fine <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=91343" rel="noreferrer">gmail help</a> -</li> <li>It is caused by a malformed url - only cases I can find relate to urlfetch() - spaces in the url - <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/22f3b4c9ca8ad9ce/2f6f16bc52e9f904" rel="noreferrer">App engine Group #1</a>, <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/8e4f4aa3378743a/b94732257aa50349" rel="noreferrer">App Engine Group #2</a></li> <li>No resolution - sporadic behaiour, IE only. <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/ddc57afff119a132/1cdcd582a5b1dd95" rel="noreferrer">App Engine Group #3</a>, <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/1f96d9bdfa35e838/ba9ae76bc3de4b46" rel="noreferrer">App Engine Group #4</a></li> </ol> <p>I'm now getting this behaviour all the time, in every browser. I can completely clear down the cache/cookies etc. in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, restart the browser and still reliably get this error on the same requests, so I don't think its cookie related. In any case I can issue GET, POST &amp; PUT requests no problem with the same cookie.</p> <p>Given that it occurs reliably on specific DELETE requests, the malformed URL would seem the most likely, however my URL is really very simple, and works fine on the dev server</p> <p>Firebug shows the request headers as (I've munged the keys as they contain identifying data, but did so by removing characters from the centre of the key - not either end to guarantee I didn't inadvertently remove any leading or trailing whitespace)</p> <pre><code> Request URL:http://my-app.appspot.com/agprhcjgLEgVLbm93dCItX0RrbV9Ea25vd3RfbmV0X19wccxDA/Task.xml Request Method:DELETE Status Code:400 Bad Request Request Headers Accept:*/* Cache-Control:max-age=0 Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded Origin:http://my-app.appspot.com Referer:http://my-app.appspot.com/ User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4 X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest Form Data entity_key:agprdC1hcjYLEgVLbm93dCIrX09Ea25vd3RfbmV0X19wMQw Response Headers Content-Length:1350 Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date:Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:51:58 GMT Server:GFE/2.0 </code></pre> <p>The response headers show that the request never made it to the app engine servers (and my app engine logs bear this out) - a request which successfully makes it to the app engine server looks more like this for response headers -</p> <pre><code>Cache-Control:no-cache Content-Length:4332 Content-Type:application/xml Date:Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:08:21 GMT Expires:Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT Server:Google Frontend X-AppEngine-Estimated-CPM-US-Dollars:$0.004033 X-AppEngine-Resource-Usage:ms=573 cpu_ms=146 api_cpu_ms=30 </code></pre> <p>I am constructing the requests using jquery's $.ajax() method and setting the type as 'DELETE'. Also, these have worked as recently as last week, although the problem was starting to appear intermittently. Right now, nothing I do has any effect.</p> <p>At the moment I'm thinking this is some sort of configuration error/change on google servers , slowly creeping across their network - which explains why it began intermittently, steadily increased, and now happens all the time.</p> <p>Is anyone else able to issue HTTP DELETE requests to google app engine? If you are, do your URL's contain app engine entity keys? Can you see anything dodgy with mine?</p> <p>Any other pointers would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,</p> <p>Colin</p> <p>The full response from the google server is -</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"&gt; &lt;title&gt;400 Bad Request&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style&gt;&lt;!-- body {font-family: arial,sans-serif} div.nav {margin-top: 1ex} div.nav A {font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif} span.nav {font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold} div.nav A,span.big {font-size: 12pt; color: #0000cc} div.nav A {font-size: 10pt; color: black} A.l:link {color: #6f6f6f} A.u:link {color: green} //--&gt;&lt;/style&gt; &lt;script&gt;&lt;!-- var rc=400; //--&gt; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff&gt; &lt;table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 width=100%&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td rowspan=3 width=1% nowrap&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10&gt;G&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=times color=#c41200 size=10&gt;o&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=times color=#f3c518 size=10&gt;o&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10&gt;g&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=times color=#30a72f size=10&gt;l&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=times color=#c41200 size=10&gt;e&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#3366cc"&gt;&lt;font face=arial,sans-serif color="#ffffff"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Error&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;H1&gt;Bad Request&lt;/H1&gt; Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request. &lt;p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;table width=100% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#3366cc"&gt;&lt;img alt="" width=1 height=4&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

Querying!

 
Guidance
An individual column

Larger individual text columns get their own page to allow for proper reading.

SQuiL has stopped working due to an internal error.

If you are curious you may find further information in the browser console, which is accessible through the devtools (F12).

Reload