[c#] How to configure the web.config to allow requests of any length

I am building a site in which i would like to create a file client side from the value of a textarea element.

I have the code in place to do this, but i am getting this error

HTTP Error 404.15 - Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request where the query string is too long.

Is there a way to override this so that I am able to process requests of any size?

If not, is there a way to generate files client side without using the filesystem/active x object?

thanks

Something else to check: if your site is using MVC, this can happen if you added [Authorize] to your login controller class. It can't access the login method because it's not authorized so it redirects to the login method --> boom.

If you run into this issue when running an IIS 8.5 web server you can use the following method.

First, find the "Request Filtering" module in the IIS site you are working on, then double click it...

Next, you need to right click in the white area shown below then click the context menu option called "Edit Feature Settings".

Then the last thing to do is change the "Maximum query string (Bytes)" value from 2048 to something more appropriate such as 5000 for your needs.

HTTP Error 404.15 - Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request where the query string is too long.

To resolve this problem, check in the source code whether the Form tag has a property method is get/set state.

If so, the method property should be removed.

I had to add [AllowAnonymous] to the ActionResult functions in my login page because the user was not authenticated yet.

If your website is using authentication, but you don't have the correct authentication method set up in IIS (e.g. Basic, Forms etc..) then the browser will be getting stuck in a redirect loop. This causes the redirect url to get longer and longer until it explodes.

I had a similar issue trying to deploy an ASP Web Application to IIS 8. To fix it I did as Matt and Leniel suggested above. But also had to configure the Authentication setting of my site to enable Anonymous Authentication. And that Worked for me.

In my case ( Visual Studio 2012 / IIS Express / ASP.NET MVC 4 app / .Net Framework 4.5 ) what really worked after 30 minutes of trial and error was setting the maxQueryStringLength property in the <httpRuntime> tag:

<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" maxQueryStringLength="10240" enable="true" />

maxQueryStringLength defaults to 2048.

More about it here:

Expanding the Range of Allowable URLs

I tried setting it in <system.webServer> as @MattVarblow suggests, but it didn't work... and this is because I'm using IIS Express (based on IIS 8) on my dev machine with Windows 8.

When I deployed my app to the production environment (Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7), IE 10 started returning 404 errors in AJAX requests with long query strings. Then I thought that the problem was related to the query string and tried @MattVarblow's answer. It just worked on IIS 7. :)

It will also generate error when you pass large string in ajax call parameter.

so for that alway use type post in ajax will resolve your issue 100% and no need to set the length in web.config.

// var UserId= array of 1000 userids

$.ajax({ global: false, url: SitePath + "/User/getAussizzMembersData", "data": { UserIds: UserId}, "type": "POST", "dataType": "JSON" }}