# ERROR HTTPUtils.HTTPRequestToByteArray

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/error-httputils-httprequesttobytearray/36130>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 17, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-httputils-httprequesttobytearray/36130 "2014-03-17T12:55:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Simon\_Bailey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Simon\_Bailey](https://community.wowza.com/u/Simon_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-httputils-httprequesttobytearray/36130/1 "2014-03-17T12:55:39Z")

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I am noticing the following error in my EC2 instance error logs:

```auto
ERROR HTTPUtils.HTTPRequestToByteArray : 
java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/product-codes
|at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1624)
|at com.wowza.util.HTTPUtils.HTTPRequestToByteArray(HTTPUtils.java:182)
|at com.wowza.util.HTTPUtils.HTTPRequestToByteArray(HTTPUtils.java:131)
|at com.wowza.wms.plugin.amazonaws.ec2.env.ServerListenerEC2Variables.populateEnvironment(ServerListenerEC2Variables.java:98)
|at com.wowza.wms.plugin.amazonaws.ec2.env.ServerListenerEC2Variables.onServerConfigLoaded(ServerListenerEC2Variables.java:128)

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-httputils-httprequesttobytearray/36130/2 "2014-03-17T07:51:46Z")

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If you are running on an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a Bring Your Own (LicKey) Subscription or Perpetual Edition license key. You can ignore this message.

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 8:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-httputils-httprequesttobytearray/36130/3 "2014-03-17T08:31:33Z")

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You can find out more about error messages with this troubleshooting article:

[How to troubleshoot error messages](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-error-messages#Server)

Salvadore