Mse will not work in firefox!

TOBRUK

Anyone have or have had this problem? Since the last couple of days I am no longer able to access MSE in firefox - MSE will load but then if I click on forums I get this:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

I have never had this problem before in Firefox and did think when the problem started that it was a problem with MSE website. However when I opened MSE in 'explorer' it worked fine!

Has anyone any idea how I can resolve this problem as I use Firefox.

kwikbreaks

There are lots of hits for that text in google.

The first result I looked at suggests deleting your MSE cookies...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Bad_request_what_if_your_browser_sent_a_request_that_this_server_could_not_understand_size_of_a_request_header_field_exceeds_server_limit_cookie_cc_click210000000001350242vkfqvpoglfz5rnt1fojipchdpyhdz

Minxy_Bella

I had this problem all day yesterday - it seems ok this morning though.

TOBRUK

Thank you both for your quick replies and advice. Kwikbreaks when I tried your link it would only flash and then go blank - even in explorer! Very strange, however, I did see during the time something about 'cookies' so I went and deleted all cookies and it now MSE works in firefox!:j

Thank you so much, it was very annoying although I feel a little silly that I didn't think of deleting cookies before posting this thread! I'm sure though that it will help others when/if it happens.

Hopefully now it will work properly for a while - it has never happened before.

Thanks again - it's good to know people here are so willing to help others AND so quickly.;)

kwikbreaks

The link is one of those huge long stupid ones that are used for search engine optimisation purposes.

It seems that the root cause is actually a bug in the Apache web server - it picks up your existing cookie and adds stuff to it repeatedly until it exceeds the valid maximum size for a cookie (4k I think) So the problem wasn't either yours or firefox.