Viewing an issue results in Fortiy error

[mibe1]

I recently installed SSC and SCA 16.20.

I am using VSTS with the Fortify extension to analyse source code with Fortify. Fortify shows me the issues, but when I try to view an issue, I get an error in SSC. I think it should show me the source code the issue is based on, bu t instead I get the error:

Unexpected error has occurred. Please contact your administrator

{"data":"","status":400,"config":{"method":"GET","transformRequest":[null],"transformResponse":[null],"cache":{},"url":"http://<server>:<port>/ssc/api/v1/projectVersions/10002/sourceFiles?q=path:\"<local location to file (on scan server, not on the SCC server>\"","headers":{"Accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*","Pragma":"no-cache","Authorization":"FortifyToken <token>"}},"statusText":""}

The text in blue I replaced myself.

It shows a location to the source file. That is the local location on the VSTS build server. Is there a way where I can change this? I couldn't find anything about this in the install or user guides.

[stephen.b.burri · Accepted solution]

This is a problem when using IE and newer versions of Tomcat (8.0.39+ and 8.5.9+ I think).

The issue is Tomcat is rejecting the Ajax request because it has double quotes (I believe this is the character based on logs) in the url.  IE does not automatically encode these while Firefox and Chrome do.

So the workaround is to either use another browser or too downgrade your Tomcat server instance.

[mibe1]

Thanks.
With Chrome it works indeed! Why didn’t I try before...

Great to know we can fix it ourselves with a workaround.