Bad request

[qno]

Hi Dave,

You asked about a Bad request? Well here it is:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

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[RayJones]

Yeah, I got a bad request last night when posting a reply to Dave's vblog on the uCurrent, and every time if I clicked on the comments link thereafter.

Today the comments link works for me again, and I see my post is there.

Sorry, didn't think to grab the message presented, but cookies were mentioned.

I was using Google Chrome in case that is a factor.

[RayJones]

Ah, just posted another comment and got one straight away:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
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[EEVblog]

I heard that this problem may have been caused in some way by my hit counter script. I've now disabled that to see what happens, so please let me know if you see (or don't see) this 400 Bad Request error message again.

Thanks
Dave.