# Strange error message

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-error-message/142796>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 11, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-error-message/142796 "2008-07-11T17:05:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-error-message/142796/1 "2008-07-11T17:05:41Z")

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I have this link for an expiration date of a credit card and when you  
click on that link you can edit that expiration date of the credit card  
through two drop-downs. On the year drop down when u select a year a  
remote\_function call is made to say the new expiration year and to  
revert that value back to a link. Everything works fine on my local  
machine but when I put it up on the server it doesnt work and it give  
some weird:

Filter chain halted as  
[#\<ActionController::Filters::ClassMethods::SymbolFilter:0xb627c5e8  
@filter=:ensure\_proper\_protocol\>] returned false.

Has anyone ever seen this error and are there any suggestions on how to  
get it to work. I’m using Rails 1.8 something. Thanks,

-S

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**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-error-message/142796/2 "2008-07-12T00:04:30Z")

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On Jul 11, 4:05 pm, Shandy N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> @filter=:ensure\_proper\_protocol\>] returned false.

That’s not an error. Upto rails 1.2.6 (rails 1.8 doesn’t exists, you  
probably mean ruby 1.8) returning false from a before\_filter halts the  
action.

Fred