Jim Zhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply. I checked out hosts and we are using Unicorn
> 3.4.1. Unfortunately there is only one setting for client_body_buffer_size.
> So how does this parameter work? Will it only put a limitation on the body
> itself or it applied proportionally to header and body (e.g., header 8k,
> body 104k, etc).

client_body_buffer_size in unicorn is only for request bodies (uploads),
and not relevant to header sizes.

> We did experiments using curl by sending header exceeding 8k manually and I
> am getting 404. So it's unicorn itself, not nginx that has the 8k header
> size limitation.

I suspect you're hitting the nginx large_client_header_buffers default
limit of 8K:

  
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#large_client_header_buffers

I checked the unicorn source, and ext/unicorn_http/global_variables.h
defines the maximum field value as 80K, 10 times more than what you're
seeing:

        DEF_MAX_LENGTH(FIELD_VALUE, 80 * 1024);

This value was inherited from Mongrel many years ago and never changed.

> The command we used for the experiment:
> curl -v -H "$(./http-header-pumper.bat 8000)" <service_url>

I just tried your script with the following config.ru to hit unicorn
directly (no nginx), and I got the expected lobster response.

$ unicorn -E none config.ru
----------- config.ru -----------
require 'rack/lobster'
use Rack::ContentLength
run Rack::Lobster.new
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