On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 07:20, Martin Johnson wrote: > Anyone know what causes this error in mathopd 1.5p3 (FreeBSD port)? > > Sat Jul 24 11:54:25 2004 [438] input buffer full > Sat Jul 24 14:12:03 2004 [438] input buffer full > Sun Jul 25 11:31:55 2004 [438] input buffer full > Tue Jul 27 19:49:52 2004 [438] input buffer full
Aha! From the man page for mathopd.conf: > InputBufSize > o Where: Tuning > o Type: Integer > o Default: 2048 > > The input buffer contains the complete set of headers sent by > the client. As such, it needs to be large enough to contain all > those headers. Usually the default value of 2048 is sufficient > and does not need to be changed. This ties up with some entries in my logs showing that a couple of kids have been sending long requests to try to overflow the URL and Referrer fields, presumably on the assumption that I was running IIS. - Martin.
