I'd have to look it up, it came up a lot at Microsoft In the IPTV group. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tempy Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 12:44 PM To: Google App Engine Subject: [google-appengine] Re: GAE's http header length limit, bug or undocumented restriction?
Really? I tried to find something in the spec about header lengths and didn't find anything. According to this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686217/maximum-on-http-header-values there are no maximums. And where did you get the 4k number? Thanks! On Jan 16, 9:09 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <[email protected]> wrote: > 400 is the specification limit for http header elements. > (actually I think it is 400 characters converted to Base64) > > Most things don't break if you go over this, > > The max size for all Http Headers is 4k > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tempy > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 10:40 AM > To: Google App Engine > Subject: [google-appengine] GAE's http header length limit, bug or > undocumented restriction? > > Hi All, > > I've hit a behavior that doesn't exist on the dev-server, which is > that custom http headers on the response seem to be limited to around > 400 characters. One custom header that I'm using which is regularly > about > 700 chars is simply silently dropped from the response. > > Firstly - this restriction, if its not a bug, should be documented. > I've spent a whole lot of time building a feature around a big http > header which worked fine all along on the dev server, if I have to re- > architect this feature then it'll be a few days of work down the tubes. > > Secondly - is this a bug? This > issue:http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=407 > Seems to indicate that this is a bug, but its marked as fixed and it > is clearly not fixed. If it is a bug, is there a known workaround? > > It would be really great if someone from google could weigh in here. > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
