[GUACAMOLE-1298] Automatically enforce request size limits independently of reverse proxy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Documentation, guacamole
• Assignee: Mike Jumper
• Reporter: Mike Jumper
• Created: 24/Feb/21 19:59
• Updated: 22/May/21 21:02
• Resolved: 02/Apr/21 00:22

Description

Current Guacamole relies on external services to enforce limits on the size of HTTP requests processed, however users may need to remove externally-enforced limits to allow arbitrarily-large files to be uploaded via file transfer (see GUACAMOLE-1060).

One possible solution would be to explicitly document the REST endpoint that GUACAMOLE-1060 should apply to, but this seems overly burdensome for administrators. It would be far better if Guacamole simply automatically enforced its own limits wherever appropriate.

Issue Links

• fixes: GUACAMOLE-503 Creation of source .tar.gz fails on platforms with large group IDs
• relates to: GUACAMOLE-1060 Client Body Size Limit in NGINX