Yes, you may use POST to make search requests to Solr.
Erik
On Feb 17, 2011, at 14:27 , mrw wrote:
>
> We are running into some issues with large queries. Initially, they were
> ostensibly header buffer overruns, because increasing Jetty's
> headerBufferSize value to 65536 resolved them. This seems like a kludge, but
> it does solve the problem for 95% of our users.
>
> However, we do have queries that are physically larger than that and for
> which increasing the headerBufferSize to 65536 does not work. This is due
> to security requirements: Security descriptors are baked into the index,
> and then potentially thousands of them (depending on the user context) are
> passed in with each query. These excessive queries are only a problem with
> approximately 5% of users who are highly entitled, but the number of
> security descriptors in are likely to increase and we won't have a
> workaround for this security policy any time soon.
>
> After a lot of Googling, it seems to me that it's common to increase the
> headerBufferSize, but I don't see any other strategies. Is it
> possible/feasible to switch to use POST for querying?
>
> Thanks!
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