Solve SharePoint Error - Updates Are Currently Disallowed On GET Requests

This post addresses the SharePoint Error: Updates are currently disallowed on GET requests. To allow updates on a GET, set the ‘AllowUnsafeUpdates’ property on SPWeb.

Introduction 

 

One of my SharePoint engineers was getting an error while clicking the General settings page in SharePoint 2016 on-premises.

 

Exact Error 

 

SharePoint Error - Updates are currently disallowed on GET requests. To allow updates on a GET, set the ‘AllowUnsafeUpdates’ property on SPWeb.

 

This error occurs while clicking the General setting of Web Application in SharePoint Central Administrator.

 

SharePoint Central Administrator >> Manage Web Applications >> Select Web Application (From List) >> General Settings >> General Settings.

 

After a bit of research, we found an easy solution, as shown below. 

 

Resolution

 

Using PowerShell Scripts ( SharePoint Management Shell),

 

Run this PowerShell script:

$web = get-spwebapplication http://SharepointUrl
$web.HttpThrottleSettings
$web.Update()

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