Greetings, Ashley Sheridan. In reply to Your message dated Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 14:23:42, > 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 did manage to solve this issue. >>>>> >>>>> It was one of the hardest issues I have had to >>>>> deal with and I am not sure what exactly solved >>>>> it. >>>>> >>>>> I did change the submission method to POST >>>>> and had to chase through a lot of javascript to >>>>> make sure all those ducks were in a row. >>>>> >>>>> I finally got it to work as expected. >>>>> >>>>> But not having any indication of why something >>>>> is not working is the hardest, considering everything >>>>> just before the apparent problem is working correctly. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks to any one who has considered >>>>> this query to this point. >>>>> >>>>> JK >>>>> >> >>> 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? I did not mean you as a person, of course. > My point stands though, it's an issue as other web servers support longer > GET requests without issue. It might be the reason why they say it's not > fixable, but it is more likely that the problem there is the effort required > yo fix against the benefits. That's implementation dependent. See this SO answer for example https://stackoverflow.com/a/2659995/1449366 -- Sincerely Yours, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
