for one comment with len=509652, I was always getting a 500 error. stripping this comment by half works, though. this fixes it, i.e. no matter what the error is, if the value len is huge, we will first try to make it smaller

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/issues.py b/issues.py
index 32a1729..364e2e5 100755
--- a/issues.py
+++ b/issues.py
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ def rest_call(before, after, data_dict=None):
             return __rest_call_unchecked(before, after, data_dict)
         except HTTPError, e:
             print "Got HTTPError:", e
-            if e.code == 413 and data_dict: # Request Entity Too Large
-                l = max(map(len, data_dict.itervalues()))
+            l = data_dict and max(map(len, data_dict.itervalues())) or 0
+            if e.code == 413 or l >= 100000: # Request Entity Too Large
                 assert l > 0
                 print "Longest value has len", l, "; now we are trying with half of that"
                 l /= 2