Caveat: even if you modify apache to do larger cookies, it's possible that
there will be a set of browsers that won't support it.
At 04:48 PM 10/20/00 -0700, ___cliff rayman___ wrote:
>i'm not an expert with this, but, a quick grep for your error in
>the apache source (mine is still 1.3.9 ) and some digging yield:
>
>./include/httpd.h:#define DEFAULT_LIMIT_REQUEST_FIELDSIZE 8190
>
>so you're right, 8K is currently the apache limit. if you try to change
>this value in
>the source code, you will probably also have to muck with IOBUFSIZE and
>possibly other things as well. IOBUFSIZE is 8192 and the
>DEFAULT_LIMIT_REQUEST_FIELDSIZE is set to 2 bytes below that to make
>room for the extra \r\n after the last header.
>
>looks like you'll have to take responsibility for mucking with the apache
>source, or
>sending smaller cookies and using some other techniques such as HIDDEN fields.
>
>
>--
>___cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.genwax.com/
>
>"Biggs, Jody" wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble when a browser sends a fair sized amount of data to
> > Apache as cookies - say around 8k.
> >
>
> > Apache then complains (and fails the request) with
> > a message of the sort:
>
> > [date] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] request failed: error reading the headers
>
> > I assume this is due to a compile time directive to Apache specifying the
> > maximum size of a header line.
> >
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