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 c4dcbed938c..27359c543ef 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
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ 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);
+    connector.setHeaderBufferSize(65536);
 
     server.addConnector(connector);