The request failed with HTTP status 417: Expectation failed - vb.net

Without getting into much detailed code
I have an 'kiosk' application that is running in about 500-800 different 'kiosk' at about 50 locations. Very simple application that connects to internet via a Verizon MIFI (2-3 MIFI per location). We believe that Verizon has made some changes to the network and now randomly I get
The request failed with HTTP status 417: Expectation failed
I have viewed The request failed with HTTP status 417: Expectation Failed - Using Web Services
and FB Connect: (417) Expectation failed
But you see I already had used
System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false
in my code.
So one of the issues I have is the application isn't easy to test, and it will fail for 20-30 minutes or several days, then clears itself up.
Changing the config to include
<system.net>
<settings>
<servicePointManager expect100Continue="false" />
</settings>
Would be a large task, I don't know it that would even fix it. Since it is random I'm having troubles because I typically can't get it to fail in my office at my desk more than 1 time.
I happen to use VB and .Net for the application and services that run with the 'kiosk'.

The issue seems to be with the config on the mifi and not the Verizon network itself. We recently switched APNs and when a mifi connects to the Verizon network it is supposed to update automatically. Sometimes the mifi will fail to update the APN setting and that is when we get this error message. There are two ways I have found to fix this issue. The first and easier is to log into the mifi and manually update the setting. If you are dealing with a user who is not tech savvy and walking them through logging into the mifi will not work you can call the Verizon wireless enterprise help desk and have them remove the feature set from the mifi, add the features back, and then pull the battery from the mifi and power cycle it, this will make the mifi request the configuration settings again.

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Sonos API subscription callbacks stopped

I have perl on apache http service that's been working fine for several years to issue sonos cmds and receive callbacks. About two weeks ago, I stopped receiving any callbacks.
I subscribed successfully (response={}) for groupVolume, playbackMetadata, and playback events.
I am successfully getting webhook messages from other services (e.g., Vonage) using https, so it seems the port is open to my server, and apache is successfully processing these requests. I see no trace of any messages from the sonos api in my apache logs.
I have no trouble issuing commands (setMute, getFavorites, getPlaybackMetadata, etc.). Only the callbacks are a problem.
I ran the ssltools checker from digicert but found no issues.
I can't recall making any changes to the home router config.
Does anyone else have a problem like this or know how to diagnose what's happening?
I installed WireShark but am overwhelmed with the functionality and don't know how to narrow down what I should be looking for to see if the messages are being received and blocked somehow.
it may be unlikely, but is it possible that there isn't any usage of your integration that would result in callbacks being sent to your service? For example - if volume isn't being changed, or playback isn't happening, you won't receive events.
If that's not the case, additional information is required to debug this issue. Could you please email developer-feedback#sonos.com with the following information:
The name of your service/application
The date/time your service stopped receiving callback events. You said about two weeks ago, but could you be more specific?
The clientId used by your code. This is the UUID you generated when you initially created the "API Key" on developer.sonos.com. Format is xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx (note - we do not need the secret associated with this key).
With that information we should be able to determine the cause of your missing callbacks.

Intermittent problems starting Azure App Services: "500.37 ANCM Failed to Start Within Startup Time Limit"

Our app services are experiencing the problem, that they can’t be restarted by the hosting environment (ANCM).
The user is getting the following screen in that case:
Http Error 500.37
Our production subscription consists of up to 8 different app services and the problem can randomly harm one of them ore some of them.
The problem can occur several times a week, or just once a month.
The bootstrapping procedure of our app services is not time consuming.
The last occurrence of the problem has this log entries within the eventlog:
Failed to gracefully shutdown application 'MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST/XXXXXXXXX'.
followed by:
Application '/LM/W3SVC/815681839/ROOT' with physical root 'D:\home\site\wwwroot' failed to load coreclr. Exception message: Managed server didn't initialize after 120000 ms
In most cases the problem can be resolved by manually stopping and starting the app service. In some cases we had to do that twice.
We are not able to reproduce that behavior locally.
The App Service Plan is S2 and we actually use just one instance.
The documentation of the Http error 500.37 recommends:
"You may need to stagger the startup process of multiple apps."
But there is no hint of how to do that.
How can we ensure that our app services are restarted without errors.
HTTP Error 500.37 - ANCM Failed to Start Within Startup Time Limit
You can try following approaches:
Approach 1: If possible, can try to move one app into a new App Service with a separate App Service plan, then check whether it can start as expected.
Please note that creating and using a separate App Service plan would be charged.
Approach 2: Increasing the startupTimeLimit attribute of the aspNetCore element.
For more information about the startupTimeLimit attribute, please check: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/aspnet-core-module?view=aspnetcore-3.1#attributes-of-the-aspnetcore-element

Twitter APIs - Twitter4j - sync issue?

I am using Twitter4J to retrieve user timelines, but it stopped working. The number of accepted requests is fine, but I get a autentication problem, probably related to clock sync?
INFO: Error while querying Twitter: 401:Authentication credentials (https://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth) were missing or incorrect. Ensure that you have set valid consumer key/secret, access token/secret, and the system clock is in sync.
{"request":"/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json","error":"Not authorized."}
401:Authentication credentials (https://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth) were missing or incorrect. Ensure that you have set valid consumer key/secret, access token/secret, and the system clock is in sync.
{"request":"/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json","error":"Not authorized."}
rateLimitStatus=RateLimitStatusJSONImpl{remaining=178, limit=180, resetTimeInSeconds=1432305852, secondsUntilReset=899}, version=3.0.5}
Not sure what to do then. ive tried already to sync my server with ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com with no luck.
I think you are using SandBox(Build-in VM) of Cloudera/Hortonworks etc
I was also getting the same problem and was trying to sync my clock with 'time.windows.com' clock but I was failed to do. So I moved to 4 nodes cluster which was already existing in my case and there my clock was in sync and I could run my request to Twitter successfully.
Conclusion: Move from Cloudera/Hortonworks VM to own installed OS and make the clock sync.
Hope this help!!!

How to track down long running calls to IIS?

Our users are restless. They keep complaining about woolly, unmeasurable stuff, particularly slowness, without giving specifics, which of course makes it very difficult to track down.
Nonetheless, it is quite possible that they are right, that there are server calls that are taking way too long to come back. So I want to put some kind of sniffer on the web site (we're using ASP.NET MVC 4 on IIS7) that will log any call that takes more than n seconds to turn around, or that returns more than x megabytes of data, along with all request parameters, the response size, and maybe a certain amount of response data.
I haven't a clue how to do this, though. Any suggestions?
here is my take on this:
FRT
While you can use failed request tracing to log slow requests, in my experience is more useful for finding out why a request fails before it hits your application, rather than why its running slowly. 9/10 times its going to simply show you that the slowdown is in your code somewhere.
Log Parser
Yes you can download and analyze iis logs. I use Log Parser Lizard to do the analysis - its a great gui over log parser. Here's a sample of how you might query slow requests over 1000ms:
SELECT
To_String(To_timestamp(date, time), 'dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss') As Time,
cs-uri-stem, cs-uri-query, cs-method, time-taken, cs-bytes, sc-status
FROM
'C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\u_ex140721.log'
WHERE
time-taken > 1000
ORDER BY time-taken desc
New Relic
My recommendation - go easy on yourself and sign up for a free trial. No I don't work for them, but I've used their APM product a lot. Install the agent on the server - set it up. In 10 mins you will be amazed at the data you see about the site. Trust me.
Its designed to work in production environments and gives you amazing depth of info on what's running slow, down to the database query and stack traces. Its pure awesome. Once its setup wait for the next user complaint, log in and look at traces for the time frame.
When your pro trial ends, you can still get valuable data on the free tier, but it will only keep last 24 hours. We purchased licenses -expensive yes, but worth every cent. Why? Time taken to identify root causes was reduced by an order of magnitude, we can get proactive by looking at what is number 2, 3 and 4 on the slow requests list and working those before they become big problems, and finally the alerting makes us much more responsive when things were going wrong.
Code it
You could roll you own. This blog uses Mvc ActionFilters to do the logging. You could also use an HttpModule similar to this post. The nice thing about this approach is you can compile and implement the module separately from your application, and then just drop in the dll and update web.config to wire up the module. I would be wary of these approaches for a very busy site. Also, getting the right level of detail to fully identify the root is challenging.
View Requests
As touched on by Appleman1234, IIS has a little known feature to look at requests currently executing. Its handy for the 'hey its running slow right now' situation. You can use appcmd.exe or the IIS gui to do it. You will need to install the 'Request Monitor' IIS feature for this to work. This approach is ok for rudimentary narrowing of the problem, but does not show you whats running slowly in your controller.
There are various ways you can do this:
Failed Requests Tracing(FRT) – formerly known as Failed Request Event Buffering (FREB) with custom failure condition of takes over a certain time to load / run
Logging request information with IIS logging functionality and then using a tool like LogParserStudio
Using tools like Fiddler or IISMonitor on the IIS server to capture request information
For FRT the official documentation is available here and information how to capture dumps for long running process is avaliable here
For logging request information in IIS information about log file analysis is located here
For information on configuring Fiddler to capture IIS requests find information here
A summary of the steps in the linked resources is provided below.
For FRT
From IIS Manager for a given site,In the Actions pane, under Configure, click Failed Request Tracing and enter desired values in dialog box to enable Failed Request Tracing.
From IIS Manager for a given site, under IIS click Failed Request Tracing Rules, in order to define rules of failure for a given request. In the Actions pane, click Add and follow the wizard.
The logs will go in the directory you specify and are viewable in a web broswer.
For IIS logging
Logging is enabled by default on IIS
From IIS Manager for a given site,under IIS click Logging, and in the Actions Pane, click Enable to enable logging if it isn't already.
From IIS Manager for a given site,under IIS click Logging, and then configure as desired and click apply.
Install LogParser, .Net 4.x and LogParserStudio (if you need additional steps see here
Open LogParserStudio and add logs to it, you then can use SQL queries to get information from the log files.
For Fiddler
You need to change the user that IIS runs as to a user that can launch applications, like Fiddler (instead of Network Service), and then launch Fiddler with that user.
Also see Monitor Activity on a Web Server (IIS 7) for further information.

Silverlight wcf connection error

I'm about a month away developing my silverlight application (this is my first). Everything went rather smoothly until today, when out of the blue I started getting this message:
An error occurred while trying to make a request to URI 'http://localhost:2682/Services/Authentication/LoginService.svc'. This could be due to attempting to access a service in a cross-domain way without a proper cross-domain policy in place, or a policy that is unsuitable for SOAP services. You may need to contact the owner of the service to publish a cross-domain policy file and to ensure it allows SOAP-related HTTP headers to be sent. This error may also be caused by using internal types in the web service proxy without using the InternalsVisibleToAttribute attribute. Please see the inner exception for more details.
I'm using WCF Services and this issue never appeared until now.
I've added a clientdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml file to my [projectname].web folder, and re-wrote them about a 1000 different ways.
I've also used Fiddler and it shows me that the error is on both those files, the error is
[Fiddler] The socket connection to localhost failed. ErrorCode: 10061. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:2682
I've searched the error "10061" and it has to do with socket definition. But I couldn't find any solution to that.
Don't know if it has anything to do with it, but my "ASP.net Development Server" port is 6939.
Keep in mind that the app has NOT been deployed, so this is only happening locally. I'm using MS VS 2010 and MS SQL Server 2008.
Am I doing anything wrong or is this a silverlight issue??
On a last note, I haven't changed anything on Port, socket or service configuration. Last thing I was doing was editing a XAML file on client side and and the app started throwing me this error.
Need help, can't do anything until this is solved!!!!
Thanks.
i think you are using you app on localhost and a dynamic port is getting assigned and this port is not fixed and every run and that causes the refuse problem. if you want to fix this, create a solid url for example,
http://localhost/apps/Services/Authentication/LoginService.svc
Well, last night, just before I went to bed, I noticed something odd. In my "ServiceReferences.ClientConfig" file, the endpoint ports for each one of my services where diferent from the ones the silverlight machine used, so going on a hunch (and because I was reaching my sanity breakpoint) I decided to eliminate all my Service References and re-add them again.
I worked... go figure. Still don't know why this happened and if anyone could shed some light on the subject, I would appreciate it. It's kinda of annoying having to re-add all my services references. Right now I have only 6 of them, but in the near future they may go over 20, and if this happens again... well, it's going to be a real pain...
Thanks