[squid-users] Re: Request_header is too large

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:12:48 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ronny wrote:

> Hi comrades am running 2.5STABLE7(transparent) on redhat.Problem is am
> seeing many of these messages in the cache.log file
> Config 'request_header_max' =20480 bytes
> Request_header is too large (XXXXX)
> where XXXXX is more than 20480 bytes the default value .
> Now seems it's a DOS attack or buffer overflow as from the FAQs.Can you
> advise please seems my cache is under stress.

access.log will contain TCP_DENIED/413 entries with details about who made
the failing request. From this you should be able to tell which clients is
causing this.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Mar 02 2005 - 06:12:54 MST

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