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May 08HTTP 414: Way Too F#%&ing Long
by in Representative Line on 2008-06-10Most of us web developers will never encounter an HTTP 414 Error. According to the W3C, 414 means:
Request-URI Too Long - The server is refusing to service the request because the Request-URI is longer than the server is willing to interpret. This rare condition is only likely to occur when a client has improperly converted a POST request to a GET request with long query information, when the client has descended into a URI "black hole" of redirection (e.g., a redirected URI prefix that points to a suffix of itself), or when the server is under attack by a client attempting to exploit security holes present in some servers using fixed-length buffers for reading or manipulating the Request-URI.