Posted by Rik Wasmus on 08/29/07 11:05

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:59:37 +0200, rf <rf@invalid.com> wrote:

>
> "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:op.txtd9j2p5bnjuv@metallium.lan...
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:24:28 +0200, rf <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
>>> news:5jklf7F149hU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> what is the maximum lengths for a $_GET string?
>>>
>>> A couple of hundred bytes or so.
>>
>> Virtually limitless.
>
> True. In theory.
>
>> The bottleneck in using very long urls seem to be the ua's & http
>> servers
>> themselves, especially MSIE.
>
> So, as I said, the limit is a couple of hundred of bytes or so.

Call me picky, but '2,048 characters' does not equal 'a couple of hundred
of bytes'.
--
Rik Wasmus

My new ISP's newsserver sucks. Anyone recommend a good one? Paying for
quality is certainly an option.

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