Bug #4384
closed"Browse All Assessments" on FIRST website generates http error prior to login
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Description
On http://www.egr.msu.edu/first/, when a user clicks on the
"Browse All Assessments" link prior to logging in, the server generates the
following error in a pop-up window: "failure making ajax call" followed by the
following message on the page:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.MetaCatServlet.handleGetOrPost(MetaCatServlet.java:843)
edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.MetaCatServlet.doPost(MetaCatServlet.java:521)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.vfny.geoserver.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:122)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 logs.
Note that this functionality was previously working fine. We have consistently noticed this behavior on various browsers.