[squid-users] urlParse: URL too large

Hi all,

        I am new to this mailing list and I am running
        a squid 2.3s4 on both HP and Sun for a large number
        of users.

        Some have reported me a problem for a server to server
        communication process using HTTP with large URLs.

        After some inquiries into squid source code I found the following :

url.c

    if ((l = strlen(url)) + Config.appendDomainLen > (MAX_URL - 1)) {
        /* terminate so it doesn't overflow other buffers */
        *(url + (MAX_URL >> 1)) = '\0';
        debug(23, 1) ("urlParse: URL too large (%d bytes)\n", l);
        return NULL;
    }

defines.h

#define MAX_URL 4096

        I would like to know why the maximum length of an URL has
        been set to 4096 bytes ? (Is it part of an RFC ?)
        How is it tunable without modifying the source code ?

Thanks for any help?

Anthony Homo
Received on Wed Jun 06 2001 - 10:07:23 MDT