jfly/tnoodle — comment on commit 5346f5745e70de1b7f78c868dcc0250d84c15626
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Haha, something like that. The problem was that some code deep in the JVM was throwing an Error (which is a subclass of Throwable, NOT a subclass of Exception), so the client wasn't getting a nice HTTP-ified error message. He was just waiting forever for the page to respond, which it never did, because his thread had crashed.