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[Mule] Error 400 Bad Request, Request Header Or Cookie Too Large

29 Jan , 2016 No Comments

I had an error yersterday, when connecting Mule ESB to NGinx. Very weird, because somehow it never shown any errors when fired directly without a reverse proxy. Here is the complete stacktrace

<head><title>400 Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.4.4</center>
</body>
</html>
 (javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException)
  org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy:156 (http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/xml/ws/soap/SOAPFaultException.html)
3. Response was of unexpected text/html ContentType.  Incoming portion of HTML stream: <html>
<head><title>400 Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.4.4</center>
</body>
</html>

It happens because Mule, by default, send a very large cookies called “X-MULE_SESSION”. After removing it, my ESB runs well again. This is how i remove it,

<http:connector name="NoSessionConnector">
	    <service-overrides sessionHandler="org.mule.session.NullSessionHandler"/>
</http:connector>
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