How to resolve the error - bad message 431 reason request header fields too large?

179    Asked by DianeCarr in Salesforce , Asked on Jun 7, 2023

Starting today, I keep getting the error "Bad Message 431", followed by "reason: Request Header Fields Too Large" when I refresh a console page in Salesforce. The page is "https://mycompanyname.my.salesforce.com/console".


I'm using the latest version of Google Chrome. If I clear the cache, close and restart the browser, I can get to the page, but when I try to refresh the console, I keep getting this error.


Any ideas what could be happening and why this just started today?

Answered by Claudine Tippins

This happened to me today (Chrome - Developer Console), I received the error - bad message 431 reason request header fields too large - The issue was I had lots of code from previous Execute Anonymous sessions that had been commented out. As I added new lines to the top such as below, I pushed the character limit as sent via Tooling API past the max value

Lead[] leads = new list {
    new Lead(Company = 'Foo00', LastName = 'LName00'),
    new Lead(Company = 'Foo01', LastName = 'LName01')
    };
insert leads;
leads[0].Company = 'Foo00Changed';
leads[1].Company = 'Foo01Changed';
leads[1].Website = 'www.failme.com'; // force partial success by failing this in VR
Database.SaveResult[] results = Database.update(leads,false); // allow partial success
/*
many lines of code previously entered for prior tests. "Many" was in the hundreds
*/
By deleting some of those lines of commented out code, the error went away.


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