Unable to clone repo with mostly largefiles from RhodeCode

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 14:54 +0800, Afriza N. Arief wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 16:58 +0800, Afriza N. Arief wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am faced with this stacktrace when trying to clone a repo. Note that I
> > > need to enter my password twice and the error happens after the second
> > > auth. The problem happens when using TortoiseHg 3.1 (with Mercurial
> > 3.1+2)
> > > from GUI as well as command line hg.exe
> >
> > FYI, as Rhodecode is no longer free software and now has a legally
> > dubious relationship with our own license, we're not really keen on
> > supporting it. You might be interested in switching to Kallithea:
> >
> > https://kallithea-scm.org/
> >
> >
> I haven't tried with Kallithea, but after investigating further, it seems
> that the problem is caused by the HTTP Header being too big. If I am
> correct, I think the problem is quite generic and applies to other servers
> that have HTTP header size limit.

Which server are you using?

There are two numbers that matter here:

- max number of headers
- maximum size of individual headers

We've tried to set defaults here that are compatible with most servers
(iow, Apache and IIS), but there are some that are way more restrictive
for no good reason.

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