diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 902811141a8..396465ea64c 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ Other Changes
 
  8.  Upgraded to Lucene 2.3.0; Jan 23, 2008.
 
+ 9. SOLR-451: Changed analysis.jsp to use POST instead of GET, also made the input area a bit bigger (gsingers)
+
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  1. SOLR-411.  Changed the names of the Solr JARs to use the defacto standard JAR names based on
     project-name-version.jar.  This yields, for example:
diff --git a/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.jsp b/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.jsp
index a1536efbb70..b3c303b3ec2 100644
--- a/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.jsp
+++ b/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.jsp
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 
 <h2>Field Analysis</h2>
 
-<form method="GET" action="analysis.jsp">
+<form method="POST" action="analysis.jsp">
 <table>
 <tr>
   <td>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
      <%= highlight ? "checked=\"true\"" : "" %> >
   </td>
   <td>
-	<textarea class="std" rows="3" cols="70" name="val"><% XML.escapeCharData(val,out); %></textarea>
+	<textarea class="std" rows="8" cols="70" name="val"><% XML.escapeCharData(val,out); %></textarea>
   </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
diff --git a/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.xsl b/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.xsl
index ae301aad802..e2b48f27048 100644
--- a/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.xsl
+++ b/src/webapp/resources/admin/analysis.xsl
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
   <xsl:include href="meta.xsl"/>
 
   <xsl:template match="solr/analysis/form">
-  <form method="GET" action="analysis.jsp">
+  <form method="POST" action="analysis.jsp">
     <table>
       <tr>
         <td>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
         highlight matches <input name="highlight" type="checkbox" checked="true"/>
         </td>
         <td>
-        <textarea class="std" rows="3" cols="70" name="val"><xsl:value-of select="fieldIndexValue" /></textarea>
+        <textarea class="std" rows="8" cols="70" name="val"><xsl:value-of select="fieldIndexValue" /></textarea>
         </td>
       </tr>
       <tr>