Hi Patricia,

There’s no hard-coded request-size limit in Apache HttpClient itself . A 413
Request Entity Too Large error usually originates on the server or proxy
side when it decides that the incoming request (header + body) exceeds its
configured maximum size.

Arturo


On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM Patricia N Goldweic <
pgoldw...@northwestern.edu> wrote:

> I am currently having an issue with the request size for some of my code
> (which has recently been migrated to use jwts for authentication, and has
> these (large) tokens both as an authorization header value and also as a
> query string parameter in the request URLs). The code depends on the
> mitre-proxy-servlet library, which in turn depends on httpclient (version
> 4.5.13 apparently). Specifically, I'm getting an (Apache) http error code
> 413 when my code makes a GET request to a third party site via the proxy
> servlet. I'd like to understand if there's any size limitation inherent to
> the http-client library that I should be aware of. Thanks in advance for
> any information you may have on this,
>
> -Patricia
> pgoldw...@northwestern.edu
>
>

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