{"id":4535,"date":"2017-12-26T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T08:52:54","slug":"youtube-pages-returns-error-400-in-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/12\/26\/youtube-pages-returns-error-400-in-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube pages returns Error 400 in Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]Recently I stumbled upon a strange error. My Google Chrome browser suddenly refuse to play YouTube videos. I got an error code 400. Here are a few hints how to solve this issue. <\/p>\n

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Description of the error<\/h2>\n

\"\"I've created some blog posts during the day and I've opened a lot of YouTube pages, to check some videos. Everything was ok. Then I interrupted my work and invoked Windows 7 power saving mode. Later on I decided to continue my work. But during an attempt, to play a YouTube video, I received the following error page.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

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400. That's an error.<\/p>\n

Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request. That's all we know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My attempt, to show a blog post with an integrated YouTube video, the section with this video was blank. No error message are displayed. Then I checked the situation with Slimjet portable. This browser was able to play the videos, so Windows could not be the cause. <\/p>\n

How to fix error 400?<\/h2>\n

In a first step I tried the usual approaches: I terminated one of the numerous Google Chrome tasks in Windows Task Manager. Google Chrome then terminated the remaining processes and was closed. But after rebooting the browser, I was still unable to display videos.  <\/p>\n

Then I tried to delete the browser data in cache (without cookies), but wasn't successful. At this point I searched the Internet and came across many hits, one within the Google Chrome product forum (see<\/a>). The article has been viewed more than 10.000 times \u2013 it seems, that this issues is wide spread. One user mentioned, that he found a way, to delete the cookies for Youtube.com in browser cache. Here are the steps provides within the Chrome forum:<\/p>\n

1. Use the cookies remove function in Google Chrome Settings. Therefor go to Settings > [Advance] > Privacy and security > Content settings<\/em> <\/p>\n

\"Chrome<\/p>\n

2. Then expand the Cookies<\/em> entry within Content settings<\/em> <\/p>\n

\"Chrome<\/p>\n

3. Enter youtube.com <\/em>into the search box shown below and delete all YouTube cookies found within the browser. <\/p>\n

\"Chrome<\/p>\n

A bit more simple may be to type chrome: \/\/ settings\/siteData <\/em>into the browser's address bar and search for YouTube (see here<\/a>). Then delete all YouTube cookie entries and try to view a YouTube video. <\/p>\n

In my case, the settings tab shown within chrome didn't work well. Suddenly I didn't see any cookies, and the tab was dead. After closing the tab, I was able to view YouTube videos again for half an hour. Then the incident came back, so I deleted all cookies stored within the case. Then the issue has been fixed. <\/p>\n

Too many Cookies?<\/h2>\n

After publishing the blog post, another German blog reader came back with a similar observation in Firefox. He wrote:<\/p>\n

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I know similar things from Firefox \u2013 using my website with WordPress and using the plugin Wordfence Security. About every half year I can't access my WP login page anymore with a similar error message.<\/p>\n

If I then look in Firefox (currently 52. x ESR) under Settings – Privacy policy – Cookies and search for for my affected domain, then I find a lot of cookies there starting with wf_loginalerted_. At the moment I have 6 entries and still no problem, but when the error message appears, there are more than 20 cookies. <\/p>\n

Since all associated Cookies are sent with the request of the web page, the amount of data becomes too large. Obviously the HTTP header increased in such a way that it becomes sometime too big for the addressed web server. After deleting these cookies, it works again for a longer period of time. I don't have to delete all cookies of the domain but only enough of these unnecessary remnants of previous sessions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Maybe it's an explanation, why I run into this issue. I've already opened some YouTube tabs and send Windows 7 into energy saving mode. Then I re-invoked the machine at a later time. It seems, that the browser's cookies has been damaged during this operation. That remembers me, that I have some issues displaying some Microsoft Answers forum pages. I receive an error in Chrome, that the page isn't viewable. Testing it with other browsers shows me always, that the pages are reachable. After deleting the browser's Cookie cache, I was able to reach the MS answers forum. <\/p>\n

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