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Server length limitations on HTTP GET URLs

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

I just did a little bit of testing at work and thought I’d dump it here for future googlers:
We’ve got an internal app team building some REST webservices and they wanted to know the practical limits of GET URL length. Now browser limits are well known, but since the cl ... Continue reading »

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  • You need to consider more than just the server limit though - what about all the proxies, gateways etc that the request might pass through? Any of those could either crash or truncate a long GET request.

    It's probably be safest to keep within the IE limit of 2048 bytes, since most things will be coded with that in mind.

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