On Wed, 17 May 2023, Benjamin Herrenschmidt via curl-library wrote:
And more specifically by the 8KB limit applied to the cookier headers.
Back again, having done some more thinking.
The main problem with upping this limit is that a typical user don't know what
the maximum allowed line length in the other end is. The limit was introduced
because it was noticed that (some) servers will treat a too long line as a
serious error and repond with a 400.
If curl receives a set of cookies that combined needs TOO_LONG bytes to get
sent over the wire, and it gets a 400 back, then curl is pretty much stuck and
can't do anything against that server without some actions or when enough
number of cookies expire...!
So: not an easy limit to toy around with.
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