Request-URI Too Large settings help

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:32:58PM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:

>Hi
>I am getting this error:
>
>Request-URI Too Large
>The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
>
>request failed: URI too long
>
>even with these settings..
>
>    client_header_buffer_size   8k;
>    large_client_header_buffers  4  8k;
>    fastcgi_buffers      32 4k;
>    fastcgi_buffer_size  4k;
>
>this is the URL that is getting failed.. please help!
>
[...skipped awfull really long uri, which probably will be just 
thrown away by some servers and truncated by others...]

Have you tried using POST method instead?  Looks like RFC 2616 
mentions your case explicitly:

% 10.4.15 414 Request-URI Too Long
%
%    The server is refusing to service the request because the Request-URI
%    is longer than the server is willing to interpret. This rare
%    condition is only likely to occur when a client has improperly
%    converted a POST request to a GET request with long query
%    information, when the client has descended into a URI "black hole" of
%    redirection (e.g., a redirected URI prefix that points to a suffix of
%    itself), or when the server is under attack by a client attempting to
%    exploit security holes present in some servers using fixed-length
%    buffers for reading or manipulating the Request-URI.

Note the "has improperly converted ..." part.


Maxim Dounin