Do http headers need to fit in a single FastCGI record?

Mike Gagnon mikegagnon at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 14:58:28 UTC 2012


Thank you! I do indeed see that error in the debug log.

Cheers,
Mike Gagnon

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:13:42PM -0700, Mike Gagnon wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have noticed that http requests with large headers leads to 500 errors
> > (more than 64k). From a previous discussion on the mailing list (2007),
> > Igor said that the entire FastCGI request (except body) must fit into a
> > single record.  Is that limitation still true today?
> >
> > http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2007-August/001602.html
>
> It's still true.  You should get "[alert] ... fastcgi request
> record is too big: ..." in logs when you hit the limit.
>
> Maxim Dounin
>
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