Error reading request

[Peter Alfors <pe...@irista.com>]

Hello all,

    I am using Tomcat 3.2.1 and noticed this message this morning...

2001-03-06 11:00:12 - ContextManager: Error reading request, ignored -
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.handleError(ContextManager.java,
Compiled Code)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java,
Compiled Code)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java,
Compiled Code)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java,Compiled
Code)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java,
Compiled Code)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java,
Compiled Code)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java, Compiled Code)

This is the first time that I have received this message.  I made a
change this morning to my web app that defines the <welcome-file> to be
an action class (Index.do).
In doing so, I had to create a dummy file (Index.do) that only contains
some text so that the web server (tomcat) will not display the directory
listing.

Now I am receiving this error when accessing my web-app in Netscape
only.  Also, this error only appears once.  If I reload the web-app, it
loads fine, without any errors.
IE does not produce this message at all.

The pages come up fine, but I am concerned why this error is being
logged.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Any ideas?

Thansk in advance,
    Pete