diff --git a/pod_uwsgi.ini b/pod_uwsgi.ini
index 822848cda8..86e6736347 100644
--- a/pod_uwsgi.ini
+++ b/pod_uwsgi.ini
@@ -20,5 +20,7 @@ socket          = /home/pod/django_projects/podv3/podv3.sock
 chmod-socket    = 666
 # clear environment on exit
 vacuum          = true
-
-
+# In case of numerous/long cookies and/or long query string, the HTTP header may exceed default 4k.
+# When it occurs, uwsgi rejects those rejects with error "invalid request block size" and nginx returns HTTP 502.
+# Allowing 8k is a safe value that still allows weird long cookies set on .univ-xxx.fr
+buffer-size     = 8192