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Thread: "Bad Request" Message From Dropdown Menu

  1. 12-20-2010, 04:19 PM #1
    dayhawk is offline Member
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    A few times a day, we notice that the auto-generated URL contains a string that is similar to the following:

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    http://www.domain.com/(f(dblfmhrwbshrjh_c2s3a0k1dj-mnvu0zuqltb41fm4xht2qo-wdd7s0oigm_gdanu47g9o-kzgi11vuek49hwb72tdoh94d7x3lsuainq5m7isnkchih3fxgqcuoa_s9ncrxtvco2lsejebypvemvd18bq1ui9pxocruilifblgjpr4ffmdqo2px7chrgiugcpromxnx-jl4f0alughbn-qnpd3k0bjrs6cqrqvqgugry2bi0))/c-2-categoryname.aspx
    It resolves on its own in a short while.

    Is there a reason this happens? And is there a way to stop this from happening?

    Thanks!
    MSx 9.2, SQL Server 2005, Windows 2008 R2 Web 64-Bit
  2. 12-20-2010, 09:05 PM #2
    ASPAlfred is offline Senior Member
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    Is that happening on every entity/category you have in the site or just happens randomly?

    Have you ever modified the url rewriter rules in web.config? It's my first time seeing that kind of issue. Can you please tell us, what changes you did prior to this one so we could have an idea of what's going on?
  3. 12-28-2010, 02:23 PM #3
    dayhawk is offline Member
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    I believe this has been happening regularly since we launched the site a month ago. It happens to every link in the ASP menu with the exception of three hard-coded top-level entity links (Category, Section, Vector).

    We do have Microsoft's URL Rewrite module installed with a rewrite map that has about 500 redirects.
    MSx 9.2, SQL Server 2005, Windows 2008 R2 Web 64-Bit
  4. 12-28-2010, 07:02 PM #4
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    As far as I know, the software does not support any 3rd party URL writer modules, so if 'Microsoft's URL Rewrite' was installed then that must be the cause of the error. You can try uninstalling that and see the result.