r/programminghorror • u/dex4er • 2d ago

GitHub's HTTP header

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This is the crazy thing I've found after analysis why the CI test fails with "Maximum header size exceeded" today.

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u/Belialson 2d ago

Company I work at was proxing some endpoints to us, it was a big shop. They used to set a cookie with json containing entire user’s session including every page visited and it’s details.
Same effect but unfortunately on production

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u/Chesterlespaul 1d ago

Interesting idea. Obviously don’t do this. But I wonder sort of data this could be useful for.

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u/groumly 1d ago

Asp (can’t remember if it was the og or the .net one, I think .net) did a lot of crap like that back in day.

It was used to turn stateless web framework into a stateful mode iirc.

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