Hi all, I am using Tomcat 5.5.12. When I set the maxHttpHeaderSize to a low value and send a large header, my HTTPClient throws
"org.apache.commons.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException: The server localhost failed to respond" exception. Is this the expected behavior? Will Tomcat abort responding if the header size is too large? Shouldn't there be some 5xx response? Also, I notice that from Tomcat 4.0.x to Tomcat 5.5.12 the default value of this parameter has gone down from 48K to 4K (and them up to 8K in 5.5.17). Can someone point me to any specific reason this was done? Would greatly appreciate your inputs. Thanks, Praveen.
