Re: #282: Recommend minimum sizes for protocol elements

On 30/06/11 21:13, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:06:32AM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2011-06-22 02:58, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/282>
>>>
>>> Combined proposal:
>>> ...
>>
>> Looks good so far, with 20K replaced by 4000 octets, as discussed in
>> this thread.
>>
>> Question: I'm not sure servers actually send 413 when the *header
>> fields* are too big -- does anybody know for sure? Otherwise we should
>> test...
>
> Haproxy currently sends 400 because I never understood that 413 was
> made for this until this thread. I was planning on updating it to
> emit 413 in newer versions.
>
> Willy
>

Ditto for squid. Was only waiting a consensus on this thread.

413 is currently only sent on too-big request body entities. I think due 
to interpretation of the old term/words "request entity".

AYJ

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