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## Setting Max Form Size

Jetty limits the amount of data that can post back from a browser or other client to the server. This helps protect the server against denial of service attacks by malicious clients sending huge amounts of data. The default maximum size Jetty permits is 200000 bytes. You can change this default for a particular webapp, for all webapps on a particular Server instance, or all webapps within the same JVM.

### For a Single Webapp

The method to invoke is: `ContextHandler.setMaxFormContentSize(int maxSize);`

This can be done either in a context XML deployment descriptor external to the webapp, or in a `jetty-web.xml` file in the webapp’s `WEB-INF` directory.

In either case the syntax of the XML file is the same:

    <Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
      <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
      <!-- Max Form Size                                                   -->
      <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
      <Set name="maxFormContentSize">200000</Set>
    </Configure>

### For All Apps on a Server

Set an attribute in `jetty.xml` on the Server instance for which you want to modify the maximum form content size:

    <Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
      <Call name="setAttribute">
        <Arg>org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormContentSize</Arg>
        <Arg>200000</Arg>
      </Call>
    </Configure>

> ### Important

> It is important to remember that you should not modify the XML files in your `$JETTY_HOME`. If you do for some reason feel you want to change the way an XML file operates, it is best to make a copy of it in your `$JETTY_BASE` in an `/etc` directory. Jetty will always look first to the `$JETTY_BASE` for configuration.

### For All Apps in the JVM

Use the system property `org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormContentSize`. This can be set on the command line or in the `$JETTY_BASE\start.ini` or any `$JETTY_BASE\start.d\*.ini` module ini file. Using `$JETTY_BASE\start.d\server.ini` as an example:

    # ---------------------------------------
    # Module: server
    # Enables the core Jetty server on the classpath.
    # ---------------------------------------
    --module=server

    ### Common HTTP configuration
    ## Scheme to use to build URIs for secure redirects
    # jetty.httpConfig.secureScheme=https

    ...

    -Dorg.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormContentSize=200000

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