Re: Whitelisting?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Whitelisting?
Date: 2010-02-02 19:57:15
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'k, note that the error below references to MIME Headers, not to regular
headers, which are already @ 1024 ...

DEFAULT/_config: 'max_header_line_length' => '1024',
DEFAULT/_config: 'max_mime_header_length' => '256',
DEFAULT/_config: 'max_total_header_length' => 4096,

Is there a reason why somone would have an odd lengthed MIME header? Odd
length being one that actually seems to trigger the check ...

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier escribi?:
>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Alvaro Herrera
>>> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Selena Deckelmann escribi?:
>>>>> Can we whitelist robert(at)pg-live(dot)info? He's got some large headers that
>>>>> are tripping up majordomo, and I'm having to approve lotsa stuff.
>>>>
>>>> I think the right answer is to increase the header limit.  I get some
>>>> moderation requests from large headers on legitimate email too.
>>>
>>> I like that solution too!
>>>
>>> The high water mark was about 500. Here's an example error message:
>>>
>>>> A MIME header is too long (444 > 256)
>>
>> Does doubling to 512 sound okay? Or should I just go straight to
>> 1024? thoughts?
>
> 1024 seems better. As Tom says, it's not that rare to see References
> headers getting long on some threads.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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