Ever seen this error when visiting a website?

 

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

 

Our client was receiving this error each time they visited their ISP’s webmail logon page.

The problem was due to a corrupt cookie previously generated by the website.   The easy solution is to delete all your cookies

To do this in IE go into Tools, Internet Options, then look for Browsing history

 

browsing-history

 

Press delete, then just select cookies

 

delete-browsing-history

 

However, you may not want to delete all of your cookies as, after all, only one of them is corrupt.

In this case (IE and XP) – the cookies were stored under:

c:\documents and settings\<username>\Cookies

Find the cookie relating to the website you’re having trouble with, delete it and you should be able to access the site again.