I ran into this problem a while back, worked around it, but now it is back.
Something has gone haywire with a struts web application I am trying to debug. When accessing an URL, I get an HTTP 400 error, with the explanation "The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect ().".
From my last experience with this problem, it turned out then to be a NullPointerException with no reason string - thus the empty string between the brackets. The problem is, the original exception has been thrown away by struts, so I have no clue where to start looking for the problem.
The cause of this issue is that all messages, including HTTP error codes, are being logged via commons-logging, which in this case has gone haywire along with the application. The correct behaviour IMHO in a situation where struts is in a broken state, is to pass the exception along with the HTTP error code to the servlet container, thus removing an enormous source of frustration for struts developers where a problem is reported seamingly by tomcat, but with no clue where the problem came from.
Regards, Graham --
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