Setting Up Your WebLogic Server to Prevent Overloading with Phony Requests

The overloading of your server with phony HTTP POST requests is a situation that you may want to anticipate and take care of. To do so, you can define three parameters that are configurable in the Servers or Virtual Hosts node. These values override those set in the servers. The variables are

  • MaxPostSize— Limits the number of bytes of data received in a single POST request. Any request exceeding the size set in this parameter will result in an HTTP 413 (Request Entity Too Large) error.

  • PostTimeOutSecs— Limits the time between which the servers wait for chunks or HTTP request data from the client application.

  • MaxPostTimeSecs— Limits the time that a server spends in receiving ...

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