On 29.04.2020 at 13:23, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On April 29, 2020 11:16:21 AM UTC, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Greetings, Ashley Sheridan. >> In reply to Your message dated Friday, April 24, 2020, 17:09:19, >> >>> I actually found that browsers weren't the issue with long GET >> requests but >>> web servers were. In my particular case it was IIS, not sure if >> Apache and nginx have the same issue. >> >> This is not an issue per se, more a sane limitation on client >> misbehavior. >> When webserver just accepted the connection and started parsing a >> request, it >> has to allocate some memory for initial buffer to read the request into >> it. >> Making this allocation bigger is not really feasible, and if your >> request line >> does not fit into it, it's safer to drop you and claim you are >> misbehaving than >> to keep reading in hopes of finding an end to your arrogance. > > I don't think I was arrogant, perhaps your choice of wording could be better? As I understand it, Andrey didn't refer to you in his last sentence, but to the sender of the overly long query string. :) -- Christoph M. Becker
