From: Jim Zhan <cjzhan2000@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: unicorn-public@bogomips.org
Subject: Re: Unicorn configuration to increase max header size
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:33:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD6h1mh-uOATyYK07ouJmH5=AHEAv0MZTGGq5zHt5X+3AyXFfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141121003137.GA31484@dcvr.yhbt.net>
Thank you. Will check out tomorrow on our production hosts based on your
comments and directions.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Jim Zhan <cjzhan2000@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Thank you for the quick reply. I checked out hosts and we are using
> Unicorn
> > 3.4.1. Unfortunately there is only one setting for
> client_body_buffer_size.
> > So how does this parameter work? Will it only put a limitation on the
> body
> > itself or it applied proportionally to header and body (e.g., header 8k,
> > body 104k, etc).
>
> client_body_buffer_size in unicorn is only for request bodies (uploads),
> and not relevant to header sizes.
>
> > We did experiments using curl by sending header exceeding 8k manually
> and I
> > am getting 404. So it's unicorn itself, not nginx that has the 8k header
> > size limitation.
>
> I suspect you're hitting the nginx large_client_header_buffers default
> limit of 8K:
>
>
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#large_client_header_buffers
>
> I checked the unicorn source, and ext/unicorn_http/global_variables.h
> defines the maximum field value as 80K, 10 times more than what you're
> seeing:
>
> DEF_MAX_LENGTH(FIELD_VALUE, 80 * 1024);
>
> This value was inherited from Mongrel many years ago and never changed.
>
> > The command we used for the experiment:
> > curl -v -H "$(./http-header-pumper.bat 8000)" <service_url>
>
> I just tried your script with the following config.ru to hit unicorn
> directly (no nginx), and I got the expected lobster response.
>
> $ unicorn -E none config.ru
> ----------- config.ru -----------
> require 'rack/lobster'
> use Rack::ContentLength
> run Rack::Lobster.new
> --------------------------------
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-21 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-20 21:54 Unicorn configuration to increase max header size Jim Zhan
2014-11-20 21:59 ` Eric Wong
2014-11-20 23:35 ` Jim Zhan
2014-11-21 0:31 ` Eric Wong
2014-11-21 1:33 ` Jim Zhan [this message]
2014-11-22 3:15 ` Jim Zhan
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