- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 06:29:42 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <Mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <20110502061310.GJ10529@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >From what I recall, Apache has a 8kB per header limit, >which is plenty for all uses. One would think, but I have seen 36kB headers in live traffic, but that was a private cache-informing header between the backend and a server-side cache, so it may not count in this context. Poul-Henning PS: Is it just me or are large pointless HTTP-headers an indicator of mobile devices where users pay for bandwidth ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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