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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 10/13/33 12:00
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Manuel Lemos wrote:
>
>> I think with GET you are limited to sending with no more than 255
>> characters. Above that the browser may chop your submission URL.
>
> Incorrect. There is no standard, and different browsers handle things
> differently. I've seen people pass > 1K in a GET request - although I
> definitely do NOT recommend it! :-)
Although browsers, proxies and servers are free to support URLs of any
length, HTTP/1.1 [1] does explicitly mention 255 characters as the length
above which people ought to exercise caution.
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1. Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt>,
R Fielding, J Gettys et al, 1999.
3.2.1: General Syntax.
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