large_client_header_buffers directive is accepted, but ignored

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 06:57:38AM -0700, Scott wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Maxim.
> 
> We are performing a rather large data update via our api using GET and have
> hit this error.  The changes to both nginx.conf and to the vhosts make no
> difference and the process dies with 414 at the same line of the update.  
> 
> After some more resarch we came across a post on browser URL limits.  Do you
> think that we are hitting the maximum limit for GET and that is the reason
> why the adjustments are not making any difference?
> 
> *Reference link:*
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url-in-different-browsers  
> 
> Thoughts?

Looking into nginx logs will allow you to know exactly.

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