Error: 400 Bad Request

Curry_Queen

Apologies for starting a new thread about this but I thought maybe the new title might attract new or different form of help

As per my original thread here, I am still experiencing this problem - twice over the weekend, and again just now - and I'm having to reboot my PC in order to access MSE again, which is very inconvenient when I have other programmes running that I have to shut down temporarily to reboot :wall:


The error message I get is ...

400 Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Apache/2.0.52 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.0.3-0.7 Server at forums.moneysavingexpert.com Port 80

Andrea, when you asked me about it last time did the techy team come up with any ideas or explanation as to why it keeps happening?

Does anyone else have the same problem, or is it just me?

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hiya Curry Queen

Can you give us times that this has happened? The more precise you can be the better we can help.

Thanks

Former_MSE_Abuse_Controller

Curry_Queen wrote:

Apologies for starting a new thread about this but I thought maybe the new title might attract new or different form of help

As per my original thread here, I am still experiencing this problem - twice over the weekend, and again just now - and I'm having to reboot my PC in order to access MSE again, which is very inconvenient when I have other programmes running that I have to shut down temporarily to reboot :wall:


The error message I get is ...




Andrea, when you asked me about it last time did the techy team come up with any ideas or explanation as to why it keeps happening?

Does anyone else have the same problem, or is it just me?

Which browser are you using curry queen?

Curry_Queen

Thanks both of you

I use Firefox and today it happened just before I got back on and posted this thread, so a little after 2pm I'd say.

I can't remember the actual times over the weekend, but I'll certainly keep a note if it happens again. I thought it had stopped as this weekend is the first time it's happened again since the last time I posted about it

tru

C_Q I was just reading your post in Discussions, maybe about:blank has got something to do with it

Curry_Queen

troo wrote:

C_Q I was just reading your post in Discussions, maybe about:blank has got something to do with it

That has actually crossed my mind too since the subject came up! I've just run adaware and found 4 critical objects and 35 negligilbe objects :eek:

Just going to investigate this a bit more and find out what they are ...

Former_MSE_Andrea

troo wrote:

C_Q I was just reading your post in Discussions, maybe about:blank has got something to do with it

Could you post more info on that here please Curry Queen, or the link? The techies are following this thread.

Ta

Former_MSE_Andrea

Oop, cross-posted. Thanks CQ

Curry_Queen

MSE_Andrea wrote:

Could you post more info on that here please Curry Queen, or the link? The techies are following this thread.

Ta

Thanks Andrea

The thread is here in Discussion Time which was discussing homepages, whereby I revealed that I use a "blank page" to save loading up a site everytime I want to use Firefox. Now on the options menu where you select the homepage, when I select "use blank page" that places the words about:blank into the location bar. However, when I actually start up Firefox there is nothing written in the browser whatsoever, until I type something in of course!

Some of the sites I've just been looking at describe a blank page popping up (usually in IE) with about:blank actually written in the browser bar, but I've never had anything like that happen, so I'm still a bit confused as to whether it's the same thing or not

Oh and the critical objects found by Ad-Aware were a Tracking Cookie and 3 Lops (one in Regkey, one in Regvalue and another in a file on a different HDD I have installed but don't use at the moment) and the other 35 were MRU's ... so I'm just about to go and deal with them.

Thanks again for the help :A

Curry_Queen

Just a quick update - I've thrown everything at the system that I've got ...

Ad-Aware
Spybot
Spywareblaster (has auto protection on)
Spyware Doctor
MS Antispyware (runs constantly anyway)


... and apart from the ones mentioned before that Ad-Aware found, everything else has come up clean, and I made sure I updated all the programmes first.

I also run a virus scan every day (at 3am as some of you will know ) and that hasn't found anything so I don't know what else to try, or if I have even got a problem here

Mr_Skint_2

@C_Q do you scan Adaware with System Restore off?