Bug 513989 - large search query causing internal server error (500) but valid redirect 302 returned

r=mkanat, a=mkanat

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/buglist.cgi b/buglist.cgi
index 810dd7b00..3090b2a88 100755
--- a/buglist.cgi
+++ b/buglist.cgi
@@ -85,9 +85,11 @@ if (grep { $_ =~ /^cmd\-/ } $cgi->param()) {
 #
 if ($cgi->request_method() eq 'POST') {
     $cgi->clean_search_url();
-
-    print $cgi->redirect(-url => $cgi->self_url());
-    exit;
+    my $uri_length = length($cgi->self_url());
+    if ($uri_length < CGI_URI_LIMIT) {
+        print $cgi->redirect(-url => $cgi->self_url());
+        exit;
+    }
 }
 
 # Determine whether this is a quicksearch query.