[resteasy-dev] Request for opinion

I'm looking at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-1244 "Resteasy swallowing Netty Http decoding exceptions". Netty has a limit on header sizes, but if a too big header arrives, the header just gets ignored. It turns out that netty passes information about the failure into Resteasy, which is ignoring that information. Now, I ran the same test to see what Undertow does, and I get this: That is, Undertow closes the connection, and all Resteasy can do on the client side is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . At first, I thought that the server should send back some useful information, but now I'm thinking that Undertow suspects a Denial of Service situation. That seems to make sense. Now, in resteasy-netty4, the fact of the long header is communicated to Resteasy, and I'm thinking that Resteasy should do the same thing. What do you think? -Ron -- My company's smarter than your company (unless you work for Red Hat)