Your message dated Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:40:39 +0000 with message-id <201210192140.40232.jmv_...@nirgal.com> and subject line Re: LimitRequestLine not taken into account when talking to CGI script has caused the Debian Bug report #638011, regarding Request lines are truncated after 8k to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apache2-mpm-prefork Version: 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 As of version 2.2.16, Apache applies a fixed line length limit of 8192 bytes when talking to a CGI script: in file `server/util_script.c`, function `ap_scan_script_header_err_core`, at lines 403--433, one can read: char x[MAX_STRING_LEN]; char *w, *l; [...] if (buffer) { *buffer = '\0'; } w = buffer ? buffer : x; [...] while (1) { int rv = (*getsfunc) (w, MAX_STRING_LEN - 1, getsfunc_data); where `MAX_STRING_LEN` is defined in `httpd.h` to be equal to `HUGE_STRING_LEN`, that is, 8192. The directive `LimitRequestLine` should apply here as well, or the documentation should make it clear that this setting does not influence the CGI module. I'm using Debian squeeze, with the latest updates: $ dpkg -l apache\* | grep ^i ii apache2 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 Apache HTTP Server metapackage ii apache2-doc 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 Apache HTTP Server documentation ii apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 Apache HTTP Server - traditional non-threaded model ii apache2-utils 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 utility programs for webservers ii apache2.2-bin 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 Apache HTTP Server common binary files ii apache2.2-common 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 Apache HTTP Server common files Thanks, Riccardo
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apache2-mpm-prefork Version: 2.2.22-1 > (...) > The directive `LimitRequestLine` should apply here as well, or the > documentation should make it clear that this setting does not > influence the CGI module. Documentation has been fixed: git diff debian/2.2.21-5 debian/2.2.22-1 docs/manual/mod/core.html.en <div class="note">Under normal conditions, the value should not be changed from - the default.</div> + the default. Also, you can't set this higher than 8190 without + modifying the source code and rebuilding.</div> Thank you
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