Request Entity Too Large Error from CDN When WFFM form Submitted

Question

Our site is set up to access through a CDN.

When a WFFM Form is submitted with image sizes of 3MB, it returns a "413 Request Entity Too Large" status error.

I have found, in online documentation, that this error may suggest a file upload limit of the CDN, but our hosting provider has told us that it is a result of too much information in the Request Payload headers from the WFFM submission. He has recommended that we try to trim the headers on form submission requests.

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Does this sound like it could be the issue? Any details to help explain the issue or to help with actually trimming these headers would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I got some help from one of my colleague about this issue

So basically the suggestion made by the hosting provider about Request Header size is incorrect.

There is a defined limit for Request Headers in CloudFront

The limit is at 20,480 bytes (Maximum length of a request, including headers and query strings) >

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudfront-limits.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40244883/cloudfront-responds-with-a-status-of-413-request-entity-too-large

But, Request Payload is not a part of the Request Header. Our request header size is in normal range.