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Heavy Forwarder Errors

kmm2
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Heavy Forwarder issues   on a 9.02 version0 and cant connect to indexer after an upgrade from 8.2.0

Anyone know of more current discussion other than this 2015 post:

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-am-I-getting-error-quot-Unexpected-character-whi...

Error httpclient request [6244 indexerpipe] - caught exception while parsing http reply: enexpected character while looking for value : '<'
Error S25OverHttpOutputProcessor [6244 indexerpipe] - http 502 bad gateway

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