NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans Zaunere]

--- betenoir at echonyc.com wrote:
> I was playing with some scripts which were working OK.  I hit back a few
> times and got this error:
> 
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> Bad Request
> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
> 
> Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
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> Using MSIE 5.1.6 on the Mac I get this error for every page on the site
> even if it's not a PHP page.  I've tried requesting a"clear.php" page to
> unregister all the variables with no effect.

I've seen this error when passing large strings as GET requests.  Typically,
4k will stop Apache by default.  Other than that, it's either a server
misconfiguration, or wacky browser behavior, although I'm not sure why.

H