Tosh McCaber Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Yesterday, using Firefox, my default Internet platform, after running through a few pages on the Model Flying site, I pressed the button to send in a comment, and came up with the following: "400 Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit." I tried to log in several times, with the same result. Same result today. I finally went to Chrome, which I'm on now, and had no problem with accessing your site. Any idea what's the problem? I certainly don't want to swap between Firefox and Chrome every time I access the Model Flying site! Any help appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickw Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I am replying via Firefox so if you are reading this it is obviously not a general "Firefox problem". ? When you say "pressed the button", I presume you mean the "Submit Reply" button? Dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 No problems noticed from Firefox here.What was it you were trying to post, Tosh? Was there a link or attachment that wasn't added to your successful post from Chrome, perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh McCaber Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 Nope- I had been looking at various areas on the site, went to post a query- and up it came. I've tried closing down Firefox, and restarting it. No joy. Next stage- I'll try shutting down the computer and going for a restart, to see if that works. Yes Dick, it happened when I pressed the "Submit Reply button to send my question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 If that doesn't help, it might be a cookie problem on your PC. You could follow this advice... Clear Relevant Cookies As discussed above, one potential cause of a 400 Bad Request Error is an invalid or duplicate local cookie. HTTP cookies are tiny pieces of data stored on your local device, which are used by websites and applications as a mechanism to “remember” information about this particular browser and/or device. Most modern web apps take advantage of cookies to store user- or browser-specific data, identifying the client and allowing for future visits to be faster and easier. However, a cookie that stores session information about your particular user account or device could be conflicting with another session token from another user, giving one (or both of you) a 400 Bad Request Error. In most cases, you only need to concern yourself with cookies that are relevant to the website or application causing the problem. Cookies are stored based on the web application’s domain name, so you can explicitly remove only those cookies that match the website domain (e.g. airbrake.io), thereby keeping all other cookies intact. However, if you are unfamiliar with manually removing certain cookies, it’s much easier and safer to clear all cookies at once. Clearing cookies can be accomplished in different ways, depending on the browser you’re using: Google Chrome Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Safari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh McCaber Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 Hi Martin, Many thanks for your reply. Went into the padlock key as instructed, cleared the cookies for the site, flagged up a new tab, entered the URL from my bookmarks column- Bob's your job, the site has come up again! Hopefully all is now well! Thanks again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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