Hi again Just to be sure I checked if the limitrequestfieldsize was in fact set (why didn't I do that before replying?) and found that it was indeed - one of my colleagues had done that. I apologize for bothering you, list, and thanks a lot for your help, Joshua! Best regards, Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Posselt Vestergaard [mailto:PPV@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 25. juli 2006 07:35 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] referer header field too long? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > > Joshua Slive > > Sent: 24. juli 2006 17:30 > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] referer header field too long? > > > > On 7/24/06, Peter Posselt Vestergaard <PPV@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi > > > We have a number of Apache HTTP servers installed all with version > > > 2.0.54. > > > Lately we have seen a number of "400 Bad Request" in the > > error logs, and > > > after a lot of testing we have found that this happens then the > > > "Referer" HTTP header field in the request contains a URL > > that it more > > > than 200 characters long. > > > We have searched the web and apache web site without > > finding anything > > > about this. > > > Can someone confirm this and tell us how to work around it? > > We cannot > > > easily replace the servers, so we would prefer another > > solution... but > > > if no such exist we would like to know whether this has > > been corrected > > > in a later version of the Apache server? We are not > > interested in the > > > referer field, so it would be okay if Apache could just ignore it. > > > > 200 characters would be a very unusual limit. You can check > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#limitrequestfieldsize > > but I suspect the problem may be elsewhere, such as an > > intermediate proxy. > > > > Joshua. > > > Thanks for your answer. > However we have not set that setting and I am entirely sure that no > proxy is in between. We first saw the error on a customer setup, but > have been able to reproduce the problem on our local setup in which we > know that no proxy is in between. > /Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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