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lmiestc_26212
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Feb 05, 2010

Logging HTTP header that is longer than the maximum allowed

Hi Community,     Recently after an upgrade of our Portal I started to see occasional entries in the /var/log/ltm about   HTTP header (32800) exceeded maximum allowed size of 32768 and...
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Gauthier_Delac1
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Dec 19, 2011
It seems that this message isn't about the size of one single header, but the size of the full request header, including http command ("GET /... HTTP/1.1") and http headers.

 

 

It's easy to allow logging something for these requests : just increase "Maximum Header Size" in http profile, but at this point, I don't know if it's possible to access the request header size.

 

 

Seems that HTTP:header is only about A header and not THE header...