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.
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