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How to deal with Testlink Cookies Exceeding Limits
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How to deal with Testlink Cookies Exceeding Limits

Symptom

When you cannot login any more in Testlink because of the following error:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
Cookie

it means that some of the cookies used by Testlink have grown too big for a normal HTTP header.

Workaround (versions < 1.9.20)

If you are using Apache, it is possible to configure the server to accept bigger header filed sizes by using the following directive in apache.cong (or in your vhost definition):

LimitRequestFieldsize 1048576

(default value is 8K)

Real fix (versions >= 1.9.20)

Testlink project has an open issue for this in their mantis bug tracker: http://mantis.testlink.org/view.php?id=3714

And it has been fixed for versions >= 1.9.20 by this commit: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS/testlink-code/commit/12d29d12d3ea82ac2f9746f4d96b36af817d32a8 (I haven't tested it yet)

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