I have a long querystring value I need to pass in (itself a questionable practice, I understand), and I am not able to get it to take effect on my Appharbor app instance.
Locally, I've made this change to my web.config and confirmed that the URL in question works locally:
<httpRuntime maxQueryStringLength="2097151"/>
And ensured that it exists in the resultant web.config post the transformation by my Web.Release.config. That said, when I push to AppHarbor, the transformation should pick it up...yet I'm still getting this exception:
The length of the query string for this request exceeds the configured maxQueryStringLength value.
Stack Trace:
at System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig()
at System.Web.HttpApplication.PipelineStepManager.ValidateHelper(HttpContext context)
Any ideas? Thanks for your help.
My original testing was done against Cassini (VS 2010's built-in web server). I pushed locally to IIS 7.5 and found 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.
Which appeared because I didn't specify the maxQueryLength in the <system.webServer> section of my web.config as well as the <httpRuntime>. So the answer is to specify BOTH the <system.web> and <system.webServer> sections:
<system.web>
<httpRuntime maxQueryStringLength="2097151"/>
</system.web>
And then:
<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<requestLimits maxQueryString="2097151"/>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>
When I pushed this version of my config to AppHarbor, all was well. Hope this helps.