PAX returns 413 Request Entity Too Large from Websphere in ICP
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:16 pm
When we make a "large" (>1MB) HTML request to Websphere from PAX (this can be report with many rows or typically a commit request that has a lot of tuples) we get it bounced back at the Webserver level as below. This severely limits what we can do in PAX.
So we found out that a 413 is usually where a webserver is set up to avoid DoS attacks as if it is externally facing. It limits the request size so some attacker cant kill the server with one query. Now our PAW setup is truly internal so this does not need to apply.
So we just go to Websphere and tweak the parameters, right? Well now all this is embedded in ICP we dont know how to do this. It seems the webserver is tweaked by start up parameters associated with ICP, but no one knows what is the parameter we need to change.
I am wondering if anyone has had experience of this before and can help. If not I will try and post any resolution. Thank you.
So we found out that a 413 is usually where a webserver is set up to avoid DoS attacks as if it is externally facing. It limits the request size so some attacker cant kill the server with one query. Now our PAW setup is truly internal so this does not need to apply.
So we just go to Websphere and tweak the parameters, right? Well now all this is embedded in ICP we dont know how to do this. It seems the webserver is tweaked by start up parameters associated with ICP, but no one knows what is the parameter we need to change.
I am wondering if anyone has had experience of this before and can help. If not I will try and post any resolution. Thank you.