Configuration of server-side caching

We can modify settings in the [server] stanza of the WebSEAL configuration file to specify limits to the size of the requests that WebSEAL reads and caches.

Usage notes for server-side request caching:

• Server-side caching helps protect WebSEAL from denial of service attack types that could cause WebSEAL to cache more data than it can handle.
• Server-side request caching does not function correctly if the user session time out value expires during the login process. In this situation, the cache entry is lost.
• Server-side request caching can cause limitations with the browser's ability to manipulate the resource. The browser is unaware that WebSEAL has rebuilt the HTTP redirect. Therefore the browser's reload/refresh function and caching ability can be hindered.

The following sections describe the settings that we can modify:

• Modification of request-body-max-read
  The request-body-max-read stanza entry specifies the maximum number of bytes of content to read from the body of POST requests.
• Modification of request-max-cache
  

Parent topic: Server-side request caching