Tomcat 4 not working as standalone server

  • 3017232
  • 16-Jan-2008
  • 26-Apr-2012

Environment


Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 7
Tomcat 4.1.36

Situation

You have installed or upgraded your server to NetWare 6.5. Support Pack 7.
Tomcat doesn't work as standalone server.
Any HTTP request is rejected with:

HTTP/1.x 400 Bad Request
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 GMT
Connection: close

Resolution

There is a bug in org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnectorCoyote connector.
As a temporary workaround it is possible to use org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector connector.

Status

Reported to Engineering

Additional Information

All connector settings are stored in this file:
SYS:\tomcat\4\conf\server.xml

Please refer to connector documentation.