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Agathe_309970
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Aug 29, 2018

HTTP 413 error

Hi everyone,   I have a specific problem and I want to know if you already see that and if you have a solution.   I need to do HTTP POST on a reverse proxy. But I have sometimes the following r...
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youssef1
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Aug 31, 2018

Hi,

 

I think that your problem come from your backend, 413 errors occur when the request body is larger than the server is configured to allow. Here’s how you can fix it, depending on your web server:

 

Apache: Set the LimitRequestBody directive in either your httpd.conf file or a local .htaccess file:

 

(https://stackoverflow.com/a/3719358/1688568)

 

Nginx: Set the client_max_body_size directive in nginx.conf:

 

(http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bsd-nginx-413-request-entity-too-large/)

 

IIS: Set the uploadreadaheadsize config setting:

 

(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jiruss/archive/2007/04/13/http-413-request-entity-too-large-can-t-upload-large-files-using-iis6.aspx)

 

Keep me in touch.

 

regards,