1827623 - A Crystal Reports .NET application where the report name is passed as a querystring to the application URL, fails with HTTP 404.15 error code.

• A Crystal Reports .NET application to export a report to PDF where the report name is being passed as a query string to the application URL, fails with HTTP 404.15 error code.
• Application is hosted on IIS.
• The application to export the report works fine when the query string is less that 1800 characters.
• There is no proper error message pointing to any particular Crystal APIs.

• Visual Studio 2008 / Visual Studio 2010
• Crystal Reports 2008 / Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

• This is not a Crystal Reports SDK issue.
• This is primarily IIS configuration issue.
• The default limit for querystring set for an application in IIS is 2048 bytes.
• The application fails with error 404.15 when this limit exceeds.

• Configure IIS for higher limit for querystring.
• See below Microsoft article which describes this issue in detail.

http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webserver/security/requestfilt ering/requestlimits

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