Question Bad Request - HUGE Cookie!

OK so I've been searching through these forums for awhile now and I cannot for the life of me find an answer to this question. This cannot be an issue that only I am having since I have seen other threads mention it and then they never receive solutions to the problem. Please help.

I have Joomla! 1.5.22, and Kunena 1.7.2 (upgraded today). After viewing a couple of threads (20-30 perhaps?) all my users are experiencing the Bad Request error. The only way we know how to fix it is to remove all cookies on our website. Sure, that works, but this does not help for people who visit relatively infrequently and then suddenly think the website is down and they don't know the solution to the problem.

Is there any additional information needed to help me resolve this issue? Please help!!! This has been plaguing my website for far too long and I am getting really frustrated by it. I like this forum software and the way it integrates into Joomla and don't want to switch again.

Thank you

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G'day, Grey Jorildyn, and welcome to Kunena.

I don't think this is specifically a Joomla or Kunena problem but, like you, I've never encountered it before. Most likely it's caused by something else that you've installed on your website. The only times I've seen the error here, at this website ( www.kunena.org ) is when there's a problem with Google Ads.

We ask that, when people post questions on the Support category here, they first read Guide to posting questions when asking for support in the forum Index page - a copy of that guide is printed at the top of this page that you are now reading. It can help if we see your configuration report.

What does Bad Request mean? See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes for a brief explanation of the "HTTP 400 Bad Request" code. Not very helpful, I admit, but if you use Google you may obtain more information about what you can do.

Sometimes these Bad Request codes appear "randomly" on various parts of the site. Sometimes it's difficult to reproduce the symptoms because (as I mentioned earlier) it depends on whatever it is that a particular Joomla extension is trying to do at the time. I visited your website, browsed a few pages, but I couldn't find the specific issue that you raised. Maybe it requires logging in to the site before something (that only appears for logged-in users) runs for a user. Of course, I didn't login to your site but it might help to know what are the conditions needed for someone to reproduce the symptoms you described.

So, at this time, I don't have any specific clues as to why you're getting these errors, when they happen or what causes them, without knowing more. My suspicion, though, is that these errors are not generated from Kunena but we can't eliminate anything yet.

Well I just did some additional testing, and I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before, but having Search Engine Friendly URLs enable in Joomla config is what is causing the cookie to grow very large.

Is that a good clue to work with?

edit: it also seems that it may just be a Joomla problem now. It is creating cookies for EVERY link you click that expire after 30 DAYS. that's waaaaay too long...

Your configuration report really would come in handy. If you suspect SEF URLs are the cause I suggest that you read all about them in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) .

I'm quite happy answering general questions for as long as you want to ask them but I wonder if this actually helps resolve your particular HTTP 400 errors because, as I mentioned before, I don't really think this is a support question about Kunena. But I can't really be sure until we've obtained more information about when, where and how you get these problems.

Grey Jorildyn wrote: It also seems that it may just be a Joomla problem now. It is creating cookies for EVERY link you click that expire after 30 DAYS. that's waaaaay too long...

How do you do that? :S

Should I posted my config report here then?

Yes. If you look at any other topics posted in the Support category, where we've asked people to post their config. report, you will see that they're posted on the forum.

Grey Jorildyn wrote: It also seems that it may just be a Joomla problem now. It is creating cookies for EVERY link you click that expire after 30 DAYS. that's waaaaay too long...

I repeat my earlier question: "How do you do that?" :S