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		<title>Error 400: Size of a request header field exceeds server limit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you get error like this one Error 400 Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit. That means that your browser is trying to send too much at once. Probably, it&#8217;s size of the cookies. The easy way to fix it &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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<p><code>Error 400<br />
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.</code></p>
<p>That means that your browser is trying to send too much at once. Probably, it&#8217;s size of the cookies. The easy way to fix it &#8211; delete cookies. Of course, you lose all info in the cookies, but at least you can access site again.</p>
<p>If you develop/manage web site and your customers complain of this error message &#8211; there are two things to do: </p>
<ul>
<li>Review cookies and limit the size of cookies your application stores in the browser. </li>
<li>Increase allowed request size in web server configuration</li>
</ul>
<p>To increase request size in Apache, add directive  LimitRequestFieldSize to the configuration file. Default value is 8190 bytes. To increase it 2 times add<br />
<code>LimitRequestFieldSize 16380</code><br />
Apache restart is required.</p>
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