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HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW

Too much HTTP header data was received. In order to protect against malicious or malconfigured clients, if more than maxHeaderSize of HTTP header data is received then HTTP parsing will abort without a request or response object being created, and an Error with this code will be emitted.

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The error message

Node.js documentation lists the code HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW without the printed message text.

Details

Category
Node.js error codes
Severity
error
Runtime
node

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Source: Node.js documentation. Data fetched 2026-09-25T01:43:12.380Z.