Lately I have noticed that I kept getting a 400 bad request when doing django development (i.e. using runserver) and browsing through Google Chrome. It was only Chrome that was behaving this way because Firefox would browse without generating any of these errors on the server side.
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[09/Nov/2010 00:31:53] "GET /acq/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1393
[09/Nov/2010 00:31:53] code 400, message Bad request syntax ('\x16\x03\x00...')
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[09/Nov/2010 00:33:39] "GET /acq/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1393
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I finally took a few minutes to debug. After clearing the cache and browsing data as suggested by many sites and having no luck I started disabling all of the extensions that I had installed. Guess what? The error disappeared.
This issue was being caused by the Secure Sites extension which lets you use secure versions of the site if one is available. In order to figure out whether a secure version is available it does an extra request, and it is this extra request that was causing the problem.
What’s the solution? I went into the options for this extension and added localhost to “Assumed no secure version exists” and the error disappeared.