diff --git a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java
index bb52fdb914b..b58e82b1bfd 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java
+++ b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ public class RESTServer implements Constants {
     }
     connector.setPort(servlet.getConfiguration().getInt("hbase.rest.port", 8080));
     connector.setHost(servlet.getConfiguration().get("hbase.rest.host", "0.0.0.0"));
+    connector.setHeaderBufferSize(8192);
 
     server.addConnector(connector);