Re: [jetty-users] Custom bad message error page

[Joakim Erdfelt <joakim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The BadMessageException that occurs during HTTP parsing (before there is a Request object) is handled by ErrorHandler.badMessageError()

See https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/jetty-11.0.15/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ErrorHandler.java#L527

That sets the status, and if the status code supports a response body, then it outputs a single line of text that is ...

"<h1>Bad Message " + status + "</h1><pre>reason: " + reason + "</pre>"

(if the status code doesn't support a body, then it's left empty)

There's no exception or anything else Jetty specific that the response produces in this situation.

Joakim Erdfelt / joakim@xxxxxxxxxxx

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:50 AM Silvio Bierman via jetty-users <jetty-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Simone,

Thank you for the reply. We do not want to change the compliance, the
error flagging is correct and desired. It is just that some potential
user doing a pen-test on our system is objecting to the messages being
generated. The SNI message contains "Caused by:
org.eclipse.jetty.http.BadMessageException" which is information (Jetty)
we are not allowed to disclose for security reasons. In general the want
the ability to tweak all error messages generated by our application. We
tried to offer that through the custom handler.

There is a Server#setErrorHandler call and I would have expected that
error handler to be used for such low-level errors. But now I understand
that this is not the case I was hoping for some other way to customize
these messages.

Is there anything else I could do to work around this?

Thnaks in advance,

Cheers,

Silvio


On 07-08-2023 16:32, Simone Bordet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 12:16 PM Silvio Bierman via jetty-users
> <jetty-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I run embedded Jetty 11.0.13. I have a single servlet instance and call ServletContextHandler#setErrorHandler(customHandler) during initialization. But whenever an invalid URL (like one containing empty segments) the handle method of the custom errorhandler is not called. Instead the message
>>
>> Bad Message 400
>>
>> reason: Ambiguous URI empty segment
>>
>> is generated. Similarly requests with a bad SNI seem to generate a page that does not go through the custom handler.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? How can I catch these and generate my own error pages?
> Some errors happen very early in the request parsing, so when they
> happen, there is no request, no headers, etc. so we cannot dispatch a
> "request" to a handler (there is no request).
> These are typically requests that are so bad that are typically
> attacks, so you don't want to generate more than a concise 400
> response from the server, as if the request never arrived.
>
> For the particular error "Ambiguous URI empty segment" you can
> configure the HTTP compliance so that the ambiguity is tolerated, and
> the request handled as a normal request.
> See https://eclipse.dev/jetty/documentation/jetty-11/programming-guide/index.html#pg-server-compliance-http.
>

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