It could be argued that this is a bug (although not a very critical one!). Steps to reproduce:
I think the problem is that Spotfire is attempting to send the value in a single request to the server and the request exceeds the maximum size that Tomcat will accept. I know this seems an odd use case, but I was attempting to build something in Spotfire that allows users to upload CSV files in their browser - this limitation means we can't upload files over a certain size.