This may not be the answer but I've always read that there's a limit on the number of characters in a GET request. I don't use many GETS so have never run into it. But that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the length of the query string...............
Ken -----Original Message----- From: Kan-Lee Liou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 8:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IIS Tomcat Web Log Error 500 Misleading? I have IIS 5.0 and Tomcat 5.0.19 installed on my machine and I have no problems running it to server JSP pages. However, our web master complained that IIS created a lot of Errors 500 in the web logs. I tested it on my local machine and I can create the errors in the logs, but I don't see them in the browser. I suspect they are some "timeout and retry" effort between IIS and Tomcat by isapi_redirector2.dll. In the following partial log, you can find that for the same JSESSIONID, it logged several GET's (200, success), a couple POST's (500, Internal Server Errors, 4th and 5th line items), and then a POST (200, success, 6th line item). I did try to refresh the web pages several times quickly in order to create these errors in the log file, but I did not see any error on my screen. ---------------------- 2004-07-14 18:23:07 127.0.0.1 GET /jakarta/isapi_redirector2.dll 200 4117 959 0 JSESSIONID=7ECBDF34DD859002F06970330B5031EC HTTP://localhost/itswindstorm/wpi8/wpi8_start.jsp?searchAddNum=1106&searchSt reet=Second+Street&searchCity=Sweeny&searchCounty=BRAZORIA&errorMsg=%3cb%3eC annot+find+any+address+matching+your+criteria.+%3cbr%3e%0d%0a%09%09%09Please +refine+your+search+criteria.%3c%2fb%3e 2004-07-14 18:23:07 127.0.0.1 GET /jakarta/isapi_redirector2.dll 200 112 641 0 JSESSIONID=7ECBDF34DD859002F06970330B5031EC http://localhost/itswindstorm/wpi8/wpi8_start.jsp?searchAddNum=1106&searchSt reet=Second+Street&searchCity=Sweeny&searchCounty=BRAZORIA&errorMsg=%3cb%3eC annot+find+any+address+matching+your+criteria.+%3cbr%3e%0d%0a%09%09%09Please +refine+your+search+criteria.%3c%2fb%3e 2004-07-14 18:23:07 127.0.0.1 GET /jakarta/isapi_redirector2.dll 200 112 640 0 JSESSIONID=7ECBDF34DD859002F06970330B5031EC http://localhost/itswindstorm/wpi8/wpi8_start.jsp?searchAddNum=1106&searchSt reet=Second+Street&searchCity=Sweeny&searchCounty=BRAZORIA&errorMsg=%3cb%3eC annot+find+any+address+matching+your+criteria.+%3cbr%3e%0d%0a%09%09%09Please +refine+your+search+criteria.%3c%2fb%3e 2004-07-14 18:23:07 127.0.0.1 POST /jakarta/isapi_redirector2.dll 500 89 937 19750 JSESSIONID=7ECBDF34DD859002F06970330B5031EC http://localhost/itswindstorm/wpi8/wpi8_start.jsp?searchAddNum=1106&searchSt reet=Second+Street&searchCity=Sweeny&searchCounty=BRAZORIA&errorMsg=%3cb%3eC annot+find+any+address+matching+your+criteria.+%3cbr%3e%0d%0a%09%09%09Please +refine+your+search+criteria.%3c%2fb%3e 2004-07-14 18:23:17 127.0.0.1 POST /jakarta/isapi_redirector2.dll 500 89 937 20937 JSESSIONID=7ECBDF34DD859002F06970330B5031EC http://localhost/itswindstorm/wpi8/wpi8_start.jsp?searchAddNum=1106&searchSt reet=Second+Street&searchCity=Sweeny&searchCounty=BRAZORIA&errorMsg=%3cb%3eC annot+find+any+address+matching+your+criteria.+%3cbr%3e%0d%0a%09%09%09Please +refine+your+search+criteria.%3c%2fb%3e 2004-07-14 18:23:19 127.0.0.1 POST /jakarta/isapi_redirector2.dll 200 510 776 9969 JSESSIONID=7ECBDF34DD859002F06970330B5031EC http://localhost/itswindstorm/wpi8/wpi8_start.jsp?searchAddNum=1106&searchSt reet=Second+Street&searchCity=Sweeny&searchCounty=BRAZORIA&errorMsg=%3cb%3eC annot+find+any+address+matching+your+criteria.+%3cbr%3e%0d%0a%09%09%09Please +refine+your+search+criteria.%3c%2fb%3e 2004-07-14 18:23:19 127.0.0.1 GET /jakarta/isapi_redirector2.dll 200 4117 798 0 JSESSIONID=7ECBDF34DD859002F06970330B5031EC http://localhost/itswindstorm/wpi8/wpi8_start.jsp?searchAddNum=1106&searchSt reet=Second+Street&searchCity=Sweeny&searchCounty=BRAZORIA&errorMsg=%3cb%3eC annot+find+any+address+matching+your+criteria.+%3cbr%3e%0d%0a%09%09%09Please +refine+your+search+criteria.%3c%2fb%3e ----------------------- Our web master insisted that a "good" application should not create Error 500 in the log. Have you seen similar things in your web logs? Do you know how to get rid of those 500 errors? Thanks. KL