diff --git a/assembly/assembly-che-tomcat/src/assembly/conf/server.xml b/assembly/assembly-che-tomcat/src/assembly/conf/server.xml
index beb23e9177..7f498ddf58 100644
--- a/assembly/assembly-che-tomcat/src/assembly/conf/server.xml
+++ b/assembly/assembly-che-tomcat/src/assembly/conf/server.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
       <Connector port="${port.http:-8080}" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                  connectionTimeout="20000"
                  maxThreads="300"
+                 maxHttpHeaderSize="32768"
                  compression="on"
                  compressionMinSize="2048"
                  noCompressionUserAgents=".*MSIE 6.*"