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Client sent malformed Host header

03-18-04 07:05 PM

Hi,

Forgive me if this is a simple question but I am new to this, I have apache
running on one of the computers on my home network, I have port forwarding
set up, it works fine inside my network, but not outside,

Someone suggested I tried using
http://www.psi-rho.com/dsltools/test.php?type=www to test the connection,
its reporting port 80 open and the error message shown at the end of this
post. The apache error log shows "Client sent malformed Host header"

Any suggestions to what my problem is would be greatfully received.

Cheers Si,


Error Message...........

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:52:46 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.48 (Win32) PHP/4.3.4
Content-Length: 313
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
</p>
<hr />
<address>Apache/2.0.48 (Win32) PHP/4.3.4 Server at 10.0.0.202 Port
80</address>
</body></html>

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Re: Client sent malformed Host header

Owen Jacobson

03-18-04 07:05 PM

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:01:15 +0000, Si wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Forgive me if this is a simple question but I am new to this, I have apach
e
> running on one of the computers on my home network, I have port forwarding
> set up, it works fine inside my network, but not outside,
>
> Someone suggested I tried using
> http://www.psi-rho.com/dsltools/test.php?type=www to test the connection,
> its reporting port 80 open and the error message shown at the end of this
> post. The apache error log shows "Client sent malformed Host header"
>
> Any suggestions to what my problem is would be greatfully received.
>
> Error Message...........
<snip>

Without the client's half of the transaction, particularly the Host:
header, it will be very hard to diagnose this.

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Re: Client sent malformed Host header

03-18-04 07:05 PM

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:02:25 GMT, Owen Jacobson wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:01:15 +0000, Si wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>
> Without the client's half of the transaction, particularly the Host:
> header, it will be very hard to diagnose this.

How do I do this (as I said before I'm new to this).
The address is http://81.152.33.78

Cheers Si,

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Re: Client sent malformed Host header

alex

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06-25-04 03:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Si 
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:02:25 GMT, Owen Jacobson wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:01:15 +0000, Si wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>
> Without the client's half of the transaction, particularly the Host:
> header, it will be very hard to diagnose this.

How do I do this (as I said before I'm new to this).
The address is http://81.152.33.78

Cheers Si,  

OK, that's wrong. only "host: name:port" is allowed (name can also be IP). C
heck the following link:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html for the official w3c 
format.

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