My friend just bought and pieced together her first computer. It took a lot of work and a lot of patience, on my side included, but her computer is working fine now. Vista Ultimate x64, 4gb of ram, Geforce 8500 GT.. Athlon X2, pretty nice machine. Every problem we've ran into we've been able to solve so far. So it figures that EA will of course be the problem now. I expected SOMETHING to go wrong.

So shes trying to log into her EA account and download the game, but when she enters the activation code

(NOTE: SHE DID ALREADY ENTER THE ACTIVATION CODE ON HER COMPUTER AND WAS ABLE TO DOWNLOAD AND PLAY THE GAME, BUT DUE TO ERRORS WITH THE GRAPHICS CARD AND THE 32BIT OS, WE HAD TO SWAP OUT THE ORIGINAL VIDEO CARD SHE GOT WITH AN 8500 AND UPGRADE FROM XP to VISTA due to memory issues)

She gets the following error:

HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Invalid uri 'http://novafusion.ea.com/1/codes/ /products': escaped absolute path not valid
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processE xception(RequestProcessor.java:508)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processA ctionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:415)
com.ea.druid.struts.CustomRequestProcessor.process ActionPerform(CustomRequestProcessor.java:85)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process( RequestProcessor.java:225)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(Act ionServlet.java:1858)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(Acti onServlet.java:459)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:709)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
com.ea.druid.action.UTFfilter.doFilter(UTFfilter.j ava:14)
com.ea.eaws.webapp.common.EARequestFilter.doFilter (EARequestFilter.java:39)


root cause

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid uri 'http://novafusion.ea.com/1/codes/ /products': escaped absolute path not valid
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.<init >(HttpMethodBase.java:219)
org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod.<i nit>(GetMethod.java:88)
com.ea.druid.rest.RestProcessor.get(RestProcessor. java:93)
com.ea.druid.businessmngr.game.GameMgr.getProducts (GameMgr.java:112)
com.ea.druid.businessmngr.game.GameMgr.isGameCodeV alid(GameMgr.java:60)
com.ea.druid.action.nucleus.EADMGameAction.consume (EADMGameAction.java:207)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor80.invoke(Unkno wn Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.dispatchM ethod(DispatchAction.java:266)
org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.execute(D ispatchAction.java:167)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processA ctionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:413)
com.ea.druid.struts.CustomRequestProcessor.process ActionPerform(CustomRequestProcessor.java:85)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process( RequestProcessor.java:225)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(Act ionServlet.java:1858)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(Acti onServlet.java:459)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:709)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
com.ea.druid.action.UTFfilter.doFilter(UTFfilter.j ava:14)
com.ea.eaws.webapp.common.EARequestFilter.doFilter (EARequestFilter.java:39)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0 logs.

Edit: I've figured out the problem myself.