I'm trying to add new functionality to my site which involves passing a whole bunch of parameters (could be hundreds of parameters) all encoded in base64 format. When I attempt the new URL I get an error 403 (access denied).
I verified this to be a length issue because I then tried accessing the same domain but instead of base64 code, I used numbers after the URL and I still get the same error.
If you feel like scrolling across, you'll see the URL I try to access:
I was looking through my apache configuration files and the only thing that stood out which doesn't make sense here is this:
LimitRequestFieldSize 8200
LimitRequestLine 8200
I say it doesn't make sense because I set the values to 8200 which I think means accept up to 8200 characters in the URL (not 400).
Is there a setting I can use in apache to fix this problem, because I know its an apache issue but I'm not sure which setting to fix.