status code for header fields to big

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:46:37 +0200
• To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4E0C702D.2090701@gmx.de>

Hi,

I quickly ran some tests, and the results are (with what I suppose are 
the default settings):

Apache-Coyote/1.1 (Tomcat):

Limit for a single header field: ~8000
Limit for all fields: ~8000
Status Code: 400

Apache/2.2.14:

Limit for a single header field: ~8180
Limit for all fields: > 16000
Status Code: 400

microsoft.com:

Limit for a single header field: ~16000
Limit for all fields: ~16000
Status Code: 400

google.com:

Limit for a single header field: ~15400
Limit for all fields: > 15400
Status Code: 400 (413 for the larger values)


So 413 doesn't seem to be used in general for this case.

Should it? In that case we should clarify the spec...

Received on Thursday, 30 June 2011 12:47:06 UTC