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sandy16
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Jun 20, 2016

illegal cookie length: ASM violation

HI ASM experts, I am seeing traffic getting blocked due to the "Illegal cookie length violation" . System configured: 8192 bytes, received 8452. I am running 11.5.1 HF7. I tried to increase the cook...
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Yann_Desmarest
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Hi,

 

8192 bytes is the default length, not the max allowed in general.

 

I will try it on my lab and give you a feedback

 

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Yann_Desmarest
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Jun 20, 2016
In fact, that's true. 8192 bytes is the maximum length you can define for header and cookies. This is a limit that include name+value. You can change this setting by Any if you have headers that exceed this max length