Bad Request, Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand

Question

There are two application servers and a switch. When i access application by using application server ip it works fine. However if i use switch ip in my url Bad request erro

Answer 1

I got Bad Request, Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand when I tried to download a file to the target machine using curl.
I solved it by instead using scp to copy the file from the source machine to the target machine.

Answer 2

Make sure you url encode all of the query params in your url.

In my case there was a space ' ' in my url, and I was making an API call using curl, and my api server was giving this error.

Means the following url http://somedomain.com?key=some value with space

should be http://somedomain.com/?key=some%20value%20with%20space

Answer 3

In my case is a cookie-related issue, I had many cookies with value extremely big, and that was causing the problem.

You can replicate this issue here on stackoverflow.com, just open the console and type this:

[ ...Array(5) ].forEach((i, idx) => {
    document.cookie = `stackoverflow_cookie${idx}=${'a'.repeat(4000)}`;
});

What is that?

I am creating 5 cookies with a string of length or value of 4000 bytes; then reload the page and you will see the same issue.

I tried it on google.com and you'll get the error but they automatically clear the cookies for you, which is a nice fallback to start fresh.

Answer 4

in my case:

in header

Content-Typespacespace

or

Content-Typetab

with two space or tab

when i remove it then it worked.