Hi Jacques, Thanks for your reply. I analysed the header and indeed there is quite a lot of information written. Maybe I made a mistake in the coding somewhere.
And yes, there are new lines in the header. Maybe thats really the source of the problem. I will check again. If anybody has other ideas, Im open for that :) Best regards, Ben. > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:05:56 +0200 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pound Mailing List] FW: "Too many headers" > > The source indicates that this message comes up if there are more > than MAXHEADERS headers (either in the request or in the response), > and MAXHEADERS is 128 by default. > > However going very quickly through the source, I see no handling of > multi-line headers (with continuation lines starting with a space or > tab), which would lead to 2 problems: > - some funnily-formated (but correct) headers (with a newline and a > space very shortly after the beginning, such as right after the :) > would not be correctly interpreted by pound > - each additional line in a multi-line header would count towards the > MAXHEADERS limit, so for very very long headers you might indeed have a > problem > > Can someone confirm/infirm this? > > I have to admit though that I don't understand why if you're using a > DB to store your session data, you would have very large headers? A > very simple cookie to store a session ID should be enough, and would > save you and the user quite a bit of bandwidth (think that such large > cookies will be sent for every single request, even static files such > as pictures etc!). > > Jacques. > > At 17:30 28/07/2009, Benedikt Nießen wrote: > > > > > >Hi, > > > >How to interpret this message? When I have a big header in a > >PHP-Script (handling sessions via database => no 4KB limit) I get > >"Too many headers" in the logs and an e500 displayed. > > > >Robert said it would not be the header size but, what is it? Without > >pound it works fine. > > > >Any hints? > >Thanks, > >Ben. > >See all the ways you can stay connected to friends and family > >_________________________________________________________________ > >More than messagescheck out the rest of the Windows Live™. > >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. > >Please contact [email protected] for questions. > > > -- > To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. > Please contact [email protected] for questions. _________________________________________________________________ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
