All of a sudden I was getting a very similar error when I clicked on a PDMLink from either MS Word or MS Excel, but was fine from MS Outlook. The only difference is the ending, which depended on which page I was trying to reach. I thought it was Office for a while, but when I set Chrome to the default it didn't do it so I know the problem was in IE.
After comparing the web addresses, I found out that IE was changing the pound symbol "#" in the hyperlink to "%20-%20" (everything without quotes). I could even click on the link, get the Tomcat error, and then replace the text with a pound symbol and it would go to the correct page. I manually reverted all the settings I could find to what I had last recorded which worked. Evidently I was missing some setting because after playing with settings for a couple of hours I reset all the IE settings (all except didn't delete personal stuff) and now I do not get the tomcat error anymore! I have do idea what setting controls this in IE, so I don't know how it happened, or how to avoid it but at least it is working now.
For example, when trying to access the
- homepage I get: HTTP Status 404 - /windchill/netmarkets/jsp/ - ptc1/homepage.jsp
- An ECN, I get: HTTP Status 404 - /windchill/netmarkets/jsp/ - ptc1/tcomp/infoPage.jsp
So it seems this error is just PDMLinks way of saying the link is broken.
Relevant Software version info:
IE10
MS Office 2010
PDMLink 10.1 M050