From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:09:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify docs for LimitRequestLine, as per bug #51665.
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Clarify docs for LimitRequestLine, as per bug #51665.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1200961 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
index a9e9866feb..7b3cbf5b1b 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
@@ -2409,7 +2409,7 @@ client</description>
     that will be allowed in an HTTP request header.</p>
 
     <p>The <directive>LimitRequestFieldSize</directive> directive
-    allows the server administrator to reduce or increase the limit
+    allows the server administrator to set the limit
     on the allowed size of an HTTP request header field. A server
     needs this value to be large enough to hold any one header field
     from a normal client request. The size of a normal request header
@@ -2429,7 +2429,8 @@ client</description>
     </example>
 
     <note>Under normal conditions, the value should not be changed from
-    the default.</note>
+    the default. Also, you can't set this higher than 8190 without
+    modifying the source code and rebuilding.</note>
 
     <note type="warning"><title>Warning</title>
     <p> When name-based virtual hosting is used, the value for this
@@ -2452,7 +2453,7 @@ from the client</description>
     allowed on the HTTP request-line.</p>
 
     <p>The <directive>LimitRequestLine</directive> directive allows
-    the server administrator to reduce or increase the limit on the allowed size
+    the server administrator to set the limit on the allowed size
     of a client's HTTP request-line. Since the request-line consists of the
     HTTP method, URI, and protocol version, the
     <directive>LimitRequestLine</directive> directive places a
@@ -2472,7 +2473,8 @@ from the client</description>
     </example>
 
     <note>Under normal conditions, the value should not be changed from
-    the default.</note>
+    the default. Also, you can't set this higher than 8190 without
+    modifying the source and rebuilding.</note>
 
     <note type="warning"><title>Warning</title>
     <p> When name-based virtual hosting is used, the value for this