Doubling might be convenient. Let's say a URI is between 4000 and 8000. There is a good chance there could be a Referer header of equal size too. Which can easily push you over the 8192 default. (and that doesn't even include the ever increasing explosion in cookie size)
-Tim On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 8:11 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > RFC 9110 recommends supporting URIs of at least 8000 octets in size. > > Currently, all versions of Tomcat limit the request line and headers to > 8192 octets by default. > > The current limit is, technically, in compliance with RFC 9110 but with > a ~8000 octet URI there isn't much room left for any HTTP headers. Given > the recommendation of RFC 9110 do we want to increase this default? > > I am currently leaning towards leaving the default as is unless we have > any evidence that the majority of users are finding they need to > increase it. > > Thoughts? >
