Gugu Ncube

Play Framework – Activator – Fix for IllegalArgumentException: empty text

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Gugu Ncube
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In case of calling an Play Server via HTTPS, an strange Exception is thrown as shown below. i.e. https://localhost:9000/

Fix: just use HTTP without the S 🙂

[error] p.c.s.n.PlayDefaultUpstreamHandler - Exception caught in Netty
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: empty text
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.(HttpVersion.java:89) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.valueOf(HttpVersion.java:62) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestDecoder.createMessage(HttpRequestDecoder.java:75) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessageDecoder.decode(HttpMessageDecoder.java:191) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessageDecoder.decode(HttpMessageDecoder.java:102) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay.ReplayingDecoder.callDecode(ReplayingDecoder.java:500) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay.ReplayingDecoder.cleanup(ReplayingDecoder.java:554) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.channelDisconnected(FrameDecoder.java:365) [netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:102) [netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564) [netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
[error] p.c.s.n.PlayDefaultUpstreamHandler - Exception caught in Netty
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid version format: ￓ￧￪￀
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.(HttpVersion.java:94) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.valueOf(HttpVersion.java:62) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestDecoder.createMessage(HttpRequestDecoder.java:75) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessageDecoder.decode(HttpMessageDecoder.java:191) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessageDecoder.decode(HttpMessageDecoder.java:102) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay.ReplayingDecoder.callDecode(ReplayingDecoder.java:500) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay.ReplayingDecoder.messageReceived(ReplayingDecoder.java:435) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70) ~[netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564) [netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]
	at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:559) [netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:na]