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Type:
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Resolution: Done
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Component/s: Tomcat
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As default maxHttpHeaderSize value is 8192 and cannot be changed, we have to create customised docker image based on https://bitbucket.org/atlassian-docker/docker-atlassian-jira to allow the value to be increased to avoid below error
HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request
Type Exception Report
Message Request header is too large
Description The server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request message framing, or deceptive request routing).
Exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Request header is too large
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.fill(Http11InputBuffer.java:726)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.parseHeader(Http11InputBuffer.java:873)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.parseHeaders(Http11InputBuffer.java:579)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:700)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:808)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1498)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the server logs.
Apache Tomcat/8.5.42
There was a similar one reported for Confluence docker image at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59318