Recruiting error: "Bad Request - Request Too Long" Topic

I submitted this as a ticket but wanted to see if anyone else is also having this issue lately, and/or if anyone has a workaround.

When I'm looking at recruits, I have begun to get this error message: "Bad Request - Request Too Long. HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long."

This is happening even when I do a simple search like "Division I recruits within 1,000 miles," it's not like I'm trying to find a perfect fit in 20 different categories.And an update as I'm typing this, I just tried to return to the homepage and it's happening there too now. Previously it only occurred when searching my recruit pool.
10/9/2023 4:47 PM
Update: cleared my cookies and seems to be working better for now...
10/9/2023 4:48 PM
yeah this is mostly an issue for chrome users with tab saving, in my experience. those session cookies just stack and stack and eventually your longer stuff starts failing (recruiting search) and then shorter stuff (anything)
10/9/2023 6:28 PM
Gill, do you have a browser that you recommend for us that are less tech saavy?
10/10/2023 9:09 PM
eh, i am not really one of those tech guys who has to use something novel or flashy for my own stuff. i just use chrome myself, for most things, firefox is good too. edge should be used to install firefox or chrome and then never again. chrome has kind of become a virus these last couple years, the incredible resource bloat, it takes SO much RAM. but i also abuse it opening hundreds of tabs before i close it, so its not a problem for most users, and they have been improving it on that front.

it used to be a bigger set of tradeoffs, before all the big browsers went chromium based (the core of chrome is used in firefox and edge). i'd probably recommend firefox, its approach to data protection and privacy is definitely better than chrome, its easy to use and should do everything you need it to do, without the evil empire vibes (i am not anti google or big business but edge / internet explorer was a disaster for the internet and google's personal data collection has definitely moved the whole industry in an unfavorable direction). i just use chrome out of habit from when it was a lot faster than firefox (i was a firefox primary probably from like 7 to 15 years ago, but chrome took a huge leap ahead in performance like 7ish years ago, so much so that all their big competitors adopted their core engine).
10/11/2023 11:54 AM
Recruiting error: "Bad Request - Request Too Long" Topic

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