Bug#566799: apache2: increase the compile-time constant DEFAULT_LIMIT_REQUEST_LINE

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Thursday 21 January 2010, lluis gili wrote:
> Increasing compile-time constant DEFAULT_LIMIT_REQUEST_LINE would
>  allow to increase LimitRequestLine over 8190 without having to
>  recompile apache. In apache2.conf could be established to 8190 by
>  default.

> if it has no negative impacts on performance or other.. we need
>  largest URIs to talk with puppetmaster
> 
> http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2668

Increasing the limit in Apache will only cause problems at other 
places, like browsers [1] and proxy servers (AFAIK squid has a 8192 
byte limit, too). Those other problems are much harder to find than 
the limit in Apache. Therefore I would rather not change the limit in 
Apache.

Puppetmaster should really use POST instead.



[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q208427/
    http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html