# Designer error loading project

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-error-loading-project/1511>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 8, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-error-loading-project/1511 "2010-02-08T14:40:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![david\_mccutchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@david\_mccutchen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/david_mccutchen)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-error-loading-project/1511/1 "2010-02-08T14:40:53Z")

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I get the following error trying to load one of my projects in the designer.

`com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayException: Gateway Error 500: Unable to read response from Gateway.
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.newGatewayException(GatewayInterface.java:236)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.getResponse(GatewayInterface.java:304)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.sendMessage(GatewayInterface.java:206)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.sendMessage(GatewayInterface.java:197)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.gateway.DTGatewayInterface.loadProject(DTGatewayInterface.java:294)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner$ProjectOpenTask.run(IgnitionDesigner.java:947)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.util.gui.ProgressDialog$TaskRunner.run(ProgressDialog.java:208)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The end-tag for element type "Response" must end with a '>' delimiter.
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.getResponse(GatewayInterface.java:302)
	... 6 more
Ignition v7.0.1 (b4461)
Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. 1.6.0_11
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**Author:** ![david\_mccutchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@david\_mccutchen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/david_mccutchen)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-error-loading-project/1511/2 "2010-02-08T14:53:04Z")

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After a gateway restart this went away. ??

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-error-loading-project/1511/3 "2010-02-08T16:39:27Z")

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This kind of error is caused by the Gateway failing when trying to stream a response to the Designer - the Designer ends up getting half a response and can’t figure out what it means.

There is almost assuredly a corresponding error message in your Gateway’s wrapper.log from the same time that should shed some more light on the issue.