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Error message: 400 Bad Request Request Header Or Cookie Too Large nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

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shaw.deborah
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When I click a link on a website, a new Firefox tab opens with this message: 400 Bad Request Request Header Or Cookie Too Large nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu). This is new behavior; it was working fine until yesterday. Can you tell me how to fix it?

When I click a link on a website, a new Firefox tab opens with this message: 400 Bad Request Request Header Or Cookie Too Large nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu). This is new behavior; it was working fine until yesterday. Can you tell me how to fix it?

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jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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Steps to replicate the issue and screenshots please. Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, run it from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

shaw.deborah
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@jonzn4SUSE,

Thanks for your reply.

I cleared the cache. Doing this logged me out of other websites I was using, but it also cleared up the issue.

Thanks again.

cor-el
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Note that this is usually a problem with the cookies and clearing the cookies for this website via the padlock should fix this.