diff --git a/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/Configuration.java b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/Configuration.java
index 601f2207..02a57d5f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/Configuration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/Configuration.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import com.corundumstudio.socketio.protocol.JsonSupport;
 import com.corundumstudio.socketio.store.MemoryStoreFactory;
 import com.corundumstudio.socketio.store.StoreFactory;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpDecoderConfig;
 
 import javax.net.ssl.KeyManagerFactory;
 
@@ -92,6 +93,8 @@ public class Configuration {
 
     private boolean needClientAuth = false;
 
+    private HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration httpRequestDecoderConfiguration = new HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration();
+
     public Configuration() {
     }
 
@@ -161,6 +164,7 @@ public Configuration() {
         setWebsocketCompression(conf.isWebsocketCompression());
         setRandomSession(conf.randomSession);
         setNeedClientAuth(conf.isNeedClientAuth());
+        setHttpRequestDecoderConfiguration(conf.getHttpRequestDecoderConfiguration());
     }
 
     public JsonSupport getJsonSupport() {
@@ -618,4 +622,19 @@ public void setNeedClientAuth(boolean needClientAuth) {
     public boolean isNeedClientAuth() {
         return needClientAuth;
     }
+
+    public HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration getHttpRequestDecoderConfiguration() {
+        return httpRequestDecoderConfiguration;
+    }
+
+    public void setHttpRequestDecoderConfiguration(HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration httpRequestDecoderConfiguration) {
+        this.httpRequestDecoderConfiguration = httpRequestDecoderConfiguration;
+    }
+
+    public HttpDecoderConfig getHttpDecoderConfig() {
+        return new HttpDecoderConfig()
+                .setMaxInitialLineLength(httpRequestDecoderConfiguration.getMaxInitialLineLength())
+                .setMaxHeaderSize(httpRequestDecoderConfiguration.getMaxHeaderSize())
+                .setMaxChunkSize(httpRequestDecoderConfiguration.getMaxChunkSize());
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..095c9e93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration.java
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package com.corundumstudio.socketio;
+
+public class HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration {
+
+    private int maxInitialLineLength;
+    private int maxHeaderSize;
+    private int maxChunkSize;
+
+    public HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration(int maxInitialLineLength, int maxHeaderSize, int maxChunkSize) {
+        this.maxInitialLineLength = maxInitialLineLength;
+        this.maxHeaderSize = maxHeaderSize;
+        this.maxChunkSize = maxChunkSize;
+    }
+
+    public HttpRequestDecoderConfiguration() {
+        this(4096, 8192, 8192);
+    }
+
+    public int getMaxInitialLineLength() {
+        return maxInitialLineLength;
+    }
+
+    public void setMaxInitialLineLength(int maxInitialLineLength) {
+        this.maxInitialLineLength = maxInitialLineLength;
+    }
+
+    public int getMaxHeaderSize() {
+        return maxHeaderSize;
+    }
+
+    public void setMaxHeaderSize(int maxHeaderSize) {
+        this.maxHeaderSize = maxHeaderSize;
+    }
+
+    public int getMaxChunkSize() {
+        return maxChunkSize;
+    }
+
+    public void setMaxChunkSize(int maxChunkSize) {
+        this.maxChunkSize = maxChunkSize;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/SocketIOChannelInitializer.java b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/SocketIOChannelInitializer.java
index aa2b724f..099a6ea0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/SocketIOChannelInitializer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/SocketIOChannelInitializer.java
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ protected void addSslHandler(ChannelPipeline pipeline) {
      * @param pipeline - channel pipeline
      */
     protected void addSocketioHandlers(ChannelPipeline pipeline) {
-        pipeline.addLast(HTTP_REQUEST_DECODER, new HttpRequestDecoder());
+        pipeline.addLast(HTTP_REQUEST_DECODER, new HttpRequestDecoder(configuration.getHttpDecoderConfig()));
         pipeline.addLast(HTTP_AGGREGATOR, new HttpObjectAggregator(configuration.getMaxHttpContentLength()) {
             @Override
             protected Object newContinueResponse(HttpMessage start, int maxContentLength,