Bug 503601

Summary:	Need to fix all text areas in the UI to deal with Max Post size
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Partha Aji <paji>
Component:	WebUI	Assignee:	Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) <jpazdziora>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Priority:	low
Version:	0.6	CC:	colin.coe, cperry, jpazdziora
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Description Partha Aji 2009-06-01 20:49:42 UTC

Many of the text areas used in our web UI, for example pages such as Create/Edit Snippets, Create/Edit Raw Kickstats, Create/Edit Config files, Channel Descriptions, Config Channel descriptions etc do not  specify a Max Character limit when getting rendered causing issues like


2009-06-01 10:46:19,859 [TP-Processor7] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter - Error during transaction. Rolling back
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Post too large
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParameters(Request.java:2368)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getParameter(Request.java:1005)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getParameter(RequestFacade.java:353)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.addParameterizedMessages(EnvironmentFilter.java:112)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:105)



One way to tackle this is to figure out whats the max size we would like on a case by case basis and enforce it on the browser.. But that won;t entirely prevent one from  doing a post request with overwhelming data...

Comment 1 Partha Aji 2009-06-01 20:53:03 UTC

Refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444221#c34 for more info...

Comment 2 Colin Coe 2010-03-16 03:01:16 UTC

In /etc/rhn/default/rhn_web.conf 'web.post_max' is defined and set to '512000'.  Should this value be used for the textareas?

Comment 3 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2010-11-19 16:03:59 UTC

Mass-moving to space13.

Comment 4 Miroslav Suchý 2011-04-11 07:32:39 UTC

We did not have time for this one during Spacewalk 1.4 time frame. Mass moving to Spacewalk 1.5.

Comment 5 Miroslav Suchý 2011-04-11 07:36:52 UTC

We did not have time for this one during Spacewalk 1.4 time frame. Mass moving to Spacewalk 1.5.

Comment 6 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2011-07-20 11:50:43 UTC

Aligning under space16.

Comment 7 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2011-07-25 16:54:16 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> In /etc/rhn/default/rhn_web.conf 'web.post_max' is defined and set to '512000'.
>  Should this value be used for the textareas?

I can only see this value to be used in the Perl stack, web/modules/pxt/PXT/ApacheHandler.pm. And I believe it's the size of the whole POST request, not of individual values in the POST request.

I plan to close WONTFIX this bugzilla unless we have some easy patch.

Comment 8 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2011-08-05 12:13:42 UTC

Closing now.