392341 - Dependency tree "View as bug list" can lead to "Request-URI Too Large" error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250388

(Bugzilla :: Dependency Views, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce: 
1. Load bug 316898's dependency tree (with resolved bugs included)
2. Click the "View as bug list" link.

Result: "414 Request-URI Too Large: The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server."

Expected: a long bug list

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to reproduce: 
> 1. Load bug 316898's dependency tree (with resolved bugs included)

I doubt many Bugzilla developers can test it as it's in the security group. :) At least I cannot read it.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I don't think there's anything we can do about this except making "view as buglist" submit as a POST instead of a GET.

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Jesse--since we can't exactly see the URI, could you tell us how long it is? I'm surprised it's hitting a server-side limit; usually some browser-side limit stops it first.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

About 1200 bugs.  Firefox's URL length limit is over 1MB, but you're right that other browsers tend to have smaller limits, so simply tweaking apache on BMO to allow longer URLs probably isn't the right fix.