diff --git a/roles/dspace/templates/tomcat/server-tomcat7.xml.j2 b/roles/dspace/templates/tomcat/server-tomcat7.xml.j2
index 9694df78..afe902c7 100644
--- a/roles/dspace/templates/tomcat/server-tomcat7.xml.j2
+++ b/roles/dspace/templates/tomcat/server-tomcat7.xml.j2
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@
     <Connector port="8081" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                connectionTimeout="20000"
                address="127.0.0.1"
-               URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
+               URIEncoding="UTF-8"
+               maxHttpHeaderSize="16384" />
 
    <!-- tell tomcat it's being proxied via 443 / scheme https -->
     <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1"