Re: WebLogic 5.1.0 SP < SP6

[Pavel Kankovsky <peak () ARGO TROJA MFF CUNI CZ>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Matt W. wrote:

> perl -e 'print "GET" . "/.." . "A" x 10 . "HTTP/1.0" . "\n\n"' | nc
> <server> <port>
...
> The other interesting thing is if you put a space between the GET and
> the /.. it still does the above but if put a space between the A's and
> the HTTP/1.0 there is no error.

Perhaps it returns an error because you send malformed requests to it?
A correct HTTP request consists of three space-separated words: method,
URI, and HTTP version. (And the lines should be terminated with CRLF
even if most servers do not care.)

Well, "500 Internal Server Error" is a wierd reaction to malformed
requests but confusing error messages are so unbiquitious nowadays...

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."