max-client-read
max-client-read = number_of_bytes
Description
Maximum number of bytes of request line and header information that WebSEAL holds in internal buffers when reading an HTTP request from a client. One purpose for max-client-read is to help protect WebSEAL from denial-of-service attacks.
As of ISAM WebSEAL 6.0, the max-client-read stanza entry no longer impacts the request-body-max-read and request-max-cache stanza entries.
Options
number_of_bytes The minimum value for this parameter is 32678 bytes. If the total size of the request line and headers is greater than the value specified for this parameter, WebSEAL closes the connection without reading any more data or sending any response to the client.
If the value is set to a number below 32768, the value is ignored and a value of 32768 is used. There is no maximum value. URL and header information in a typical request rarely exceeds 2048 bytes.
Usage: Required.
Default value
32768
Example:
max-client-read = 32768