OmniAuth Google OpenID WEBrick::HTTPStatus::RequestURITooLarge

Question

I am using OmniAuth to allow users to log in with their Google OpenID accounts. When I try to log in in development mode with WEBrick, I get a WEBrick::HTTPStatus::RequestURITooLarge error. When I deploy it to my rails host, it works fine. Is there a different web server I should use instead of WEBrick?

Answer 1

Strange, I wonder what the URI length limit is for WEBrick. You could try thin http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/. I use this locally for development sometimes and it seems to work great.

Answer 2

As mentioned in railscast 236 for OmniAuth, WEBrick has trouble with long urls given by OpenID. The solution given that worked for me was to add Mongrel to your gemfile.

gem 'mongrel', '1.2.0.pre2'