[squid-users] URL too large??

[Eliezer Croitoru]

And you are still using squid?

Eliezer

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-----Original Message-----
From: Yuri Voinov [mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:09 PM
To: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>; squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] URL too large??

14.12.2016 2:05, Eliezer Croitoru пишет:
> Hey Yuri,
>
> It's not right that the Internet is 4*8K in the urls.
> It's just that it happens that some of the Internet users abuse their options to enter something in the browser.
> Most browsers doesn't support more then 16k and the number which was mentioned was 100K++ so it's either not HTTP or something else.
I don't care. I know all about this problem and solve it years ago.
>
> If you are managing a network like a soho this is a very nice restriction to have 8k or 16k and in some cases 24k limit for a url maximum size.
> The defaults are defaults but depends on the applications which are being used the choice of the defaults or special compiled version would change.
Please, stop lecture me. I have big enough networks, I'm solve this problem years ago, I know exactly which URL_MAX satisfied my requirements, I'm builds all critical software from sources, I know how to change defaults and what are they means.

Thank you.
>
> Eliezer
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> From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org] 
> On Behalf Of Yuri Voinov
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:46 PM
> To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] URL too large??
>
> It means exactly what it said: URL too long.
> In Squid's defaults set 8k for URL size. This was reasonable maximum 10 years ago.
> Now it seems too small (at least 4 times) because of now Internet full of adware bullshit (referrals/trackers/counters etc.) which is often more 8k.
> You can easy fix it (if you worry about it. It seems for end-user like hang/broken links) if you build squid from source. Just change vaule MAX_URL in src/defines.h and recompile.
> But if you do this, beware - some things become slower, and danger of deinal of service exists.
> That's it.
> WBR, Yuri
>
> 14.12.2016 1:05, Odhiambo Washington пишет:
> I did not dig deep into it I couldn't scan the access log for it because I had no idea what 'too long' meant. 
> I will ignore it until someone says they're unable to access a website, and they can give me details of what it is.
>
>
> On 13 December 2016 at 19:51, Eliezer Croitoru <mailto:eliezer at ngtech.co.il> wrote:
> I think that the maximum size was 64k and it's way above this. 
> It should not be an issue if this is some weird application creating some random url which doesn't have meaning.
> But if you know what is creating such a url it's a whole another story.
> Can you reproduce\recreate this url?
>
> Eliezer
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> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Odhiambo Washington <mailto:odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Saw this on my cache.log (squid-3.5.22, FreeBSD-9.3,):
>
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| WARNING: no_suid: setuid(0): (1) Operation not 
> permitted
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| WARNING: no_suid: setuid(0): (1) Operation not 
> permitted
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| HTCP Disabled.
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| Finished loading MIME types and icons.
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| Accepting NAT intercepted HTTP Socket connections 
> at local=[::]:13128 remote=[::] FD 39 flags=41
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| Accepting HTTP Socket connections at 
> local=[::]:13130 remote=[::] FD 40 flags=9
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| Accepting NAT intercepted SSL bumped HTTPS Socket 
> connections at local=[::]:13129 remote=[::] FD 41 flags=41
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| Accepting ICP messages on [::]:3130
> 2016/12/13 11:47:55| Sending ICP messages from [::]:3130
> 2016/12/13 11:53:25| urlParse: URL too large (11654 bytes)
>
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