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We are using Jetty to run an Apache Solr index. We've had some queries that have grown way beyond the previously expected maximum length, and are now having issues where most queries are not returning any data because the server doesn't respond (browser says "Connection reset").

These requests are not being made through a browser, they're being made programmatically using the Apache_Solr_Service PHP library. The application is expecting queries to come in as HTTP GET requests, so simply switching to a POST will not solve this problem.

How can we increase the maximum allowed HTTP GET query length in Jetty?

Thanks!

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http://serverfault.com/questions/56691/whats-the-maximum-url-length-in-tomcat

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Thanks but I said Jetty, not Tomcat. I can't seem to find anywhere in Jetty's configuration files where I would put the settings you've linked to. – Mike Apr 27 '10 at 15:12
headerbuffersize? – JamesRyan Apr 27 '10 at 21:08
Tried it. No luck. – Mike Apr 28 '10 at 12:44
We decided to ditch Jetty and switch to Tomcat. After doing so, we were able to make the changes indicated in link you provided and are no longer experiencing problems. Thanks! – Mike May 5 '10 at 17:08
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A little late to the party, but I've just come up against the same problem.

Add the following to the connectors section of jetty.xml:

<Set name="headerBufferSize">65536</Set>

This will increase the header limit from the default of 4KB to 64KB.

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