The answer is
The URI RFC (of which URLs are a subset) doesn't define a maximum length, however, it does recommend that the hostname part of the URI (if applicable) not exceed 255 characters in length:
URI producers should use names that conform to the DNS syntax, even when use of DNS is not immediately apparent, and should limit these names to no more than 255 characters in length.
As noted in other posts though, some browsers have a practical limitation on the length of a URL.
I have experience with SharePoint 2007, 2010 and there is a limit of the length URL you can create from the server side in this case SharePoint, so it depends mostly on, 1) the client (browser, version, and OS) and 2) the server technology, IIS, Apache, etc.
There is really no universal maximum URL length. The max length is determined only by what the client browser chooses to support, which varies widely. The 2,083 limit is only present in Internet Explorer (all versions up to 7.0). The max length in Firefox and Safari seems to be unlimited, although instability occurs with URLs reaching around 65,000 characters. Opera seems to have no max URL length whatsoever, and doesn't suffer instability at extremely long lengths.
The HTTP 1.1 specification says:
URIs in HTTP can be represented in absolute form or relative to some
known base URI [11], depending upon the context of their use. The two
forms are differentiated by the fact that absolute URIs always begin
with a scheme name followed by a colon. For definitive information on
URL syntax and semantics, see "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics," RFC 2396 [42] (which replaces RFCs 1738 [4] and RFC 1808 [11]). This specification adopts the definitions of "URI-reference", "absoluteURI", "relativeURI", "port",
"host","abs_path", "rel_path", and "authority" from that
specification.The HTTP protocol does not place any a priori limit on the length of
a URI. Servers MUST be able to handle the URI of any resource they serve, and SHOULD be able to handle URIs of unbounded length if they provide GET-based forms that could generate such URIs.* A server SHOULD return 414 (Request-URI Too Long) status if a URI is longer than the server can handle (see section 10.4.15).Note: Servers ought to be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes, because some older client or proxy implementations might not properly support these lengths.
As mentioned by @Brian, the HTTP clients (e.g. browsers) may have their own limits, and HTTP servers will have different limits.
According to the HTTP spec, there is no limit to a URL's length. Keep your URLs under 2048 characters; this will ensure the URLs work in all clients & server configurations. Also, search engines like URLs to remain under approximately 2000 characters.
The URI RFC (of which URLs are a subset) doesn't define a maximum length, however, it does recommend that the hostname part of the URI (if applicable) not exceed 255 characters in length:
URI producers should use names that conform to the DNS syntax, even when use of DNS is not immediately apparent, and should limit these names to no more than 255 characters in length.
As noted in other posts though, some browsers have a practical limitation on the length of a URL.
The HTTP 1.1 specification says:
URIs in HTTP can be represented in absolute form or relative to some
known base URI [11], depending upon the context of their use. The two
forms are differentiated by the fact that absolute URIs always begin
with a scheme name followed by a colon. For definitive information on
URL syntax and semantics, see "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics," RFC 2396 [42] (which replaces RFCs 1738 [4] and RFC 1808 [11]). This specification adopts the definitions of "URI-reference", "absoluteURI", "relativeURI", "port",
"host","abs_path", "rel_path", and "authority" from that
specification.The HTTP protocol does not place any a priori limit on the length of
a URI. Servers MUST be able to handle the URI of any resource they serve, and SHOULD be able to handle URIs of unbounded length if they provide GET-based forms that could generate such URIs.* A server SHOULD return 414 (Request-URI Too Long) status if a URI is longer than the server can handle (see section 10.4.15).Note: Servers ought to be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes, because some older client or proxy implementations might not properly support these lengths.
As mentioned by @Brian, the HTTP clients (e.g. browsers) may have their own limits, and HTTP servers will have different limits.
Why is the Internet Explorer limit only 2K while IIS has a limit of 16K? I don't think it makes sense.
So I want to start an experiment about Ajax request URL size limits.
I have set my Tomcat HTTP connector's maxHttpHeaderSize="1048576". And prepared a very long URL.
Then I send a request with the long URL like the following:
var url="/ajax/url-length.jsp";
jQuery.ajax(url,{data:{q:"0".repeat(1048000-url.length-4)}});
jQuery reports done. Tomcat reports the URL requested is 1048015 bytes. It was tested with Chrome 50 and Internet Explorer 11.
So web browsers won't truncate or limit your URL intentionally when sending Ajax requests.
Just remove or comment the following lines
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { /Identity/ services.AddDbContext(options => options.UseSqlServer(Configuration["ConnectionStrings:IdentityConnection"])); services.AddIdentity<AppUser, IdentityRole>().AddEntityFrameworkStores().AddDefaultTokenProviders(); /End/
/*Identity Login Url */
services.ConfigureApplicationCookie(opts => opts.LoginPath = "/Login");
services.AddMvc();
//Authorization
//services.AddMvc(config =>
//{
// var policy = new AuthorizationPolicyBuilder()
// .RequireAuthenticatedUser()
// .Build();
// config.Filters.Add(new AuthorizeFilter(policy));
//});
}
The longest URLs I came across are data URLs
Example image URL from Google image results (11747 characters)
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It seems that Chrome at least has raised this limit. I pasted 20,000 characters into the bookmarklet and it took it.
The URI RFC (of which URLs are a subset) doesn't define a maximum length, however, it does recommend that the hostname part of the URI (if applicable) not exceed 255 characters in length:
URI producers should use names that conform to the DNS syntax, even when use of DNS is not immediately apparent, and should limit these names to no more than 255 characters in length.
As noted in other posts though, some browsers have a practical limitation on the length of a URL.
Just remove or comment the following lines
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { /Identity/ services.AddDbContext(options => options.UseSqlServer(Configuration["ConnectionStrings:IdentityConnection"])); services.AddIdentity<AppUser, IdentityRole>().AddEntityFrameworkStores().AddDefaultTokenProviders(); /End/
/*Identity Login Url */
services.ConfigureApplicationCookie(opts => opts.LoginPath = "/Login");
services.AddMvc();
//Authorization
//services.AddMvc(config =>
//{
// var policy = new AuthorizationPolicyBuilder()
// .RequireAuthenticatedUser()
// .Build();
// config.Filters.Add(new AuthorizeFilter(policy));
//});
}
WWW FAQs: What is the maximum length of a URL? has its own answer based on empirical testing and research. The short answer is that going over 2048 characters makes Internet Explorer unhappy and thus this is the limit you should use. See the page for a long answer.
I wrote this test that keeps on adding 'a' to parameter until the browser fails
C# part:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)]
public ActionResult ParamTest(string x)
{
ViewBag.TestLength = 0;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(x))
{
System.IO.File.WriteAllLines("c:/result.txt",
new[] {Request.UserAgent, x.Length.ToString()});
ViewBag.TestLength = x.Length + 1;
}
return View();
}
View:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var text = "a";
for (var i = 0; i < parseInt(@ViewBag.TestLength)-1; i++) {
text += "a";
}
document.location.href = "http://localhost:50766/Home/ParamTest?x=" + text;
});
</script>
PART 1
On Chrome I got:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36
2046
It then blew up with:
HTTP Error 404.15 - Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request where the query string is too long.
Same on Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
2046
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
2046
PART 2
I went easy mode and added additional limits to IISExpress applicationhost.config and web.config setting maxQueryStringLength="32768".
Chrome failed with message 'Bad Request - Request Too Long
HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long.
after 7744 characters.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36
7744
PART 3
<headerLimits>
<add header="Content-type" sizeLimit="32768" />
</headerLimits>
which didn't help at all. I finally decided to use fiddler to remove the referrer from header.
static function OnBeforeRequest(oSession: Session) {
if (oSession.url.Contains("localhost:50766")) {
oSession.RequestHeaders.Remove("Referer");
}
Which did nicely.
Chrome: got to 15613 characters. (I guess it's a 16K limit for IIS)
And it failed again with:
<BODY><h2>Bad Request - Request Too Long</h2>
<hr><p>HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long.</p>
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36
15613
Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
15708
Internet Explorer 8 failed with iexplore.exe crashing.
After 2505
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
2505
Android Emulator
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1; Android SDK built for x86 Build/LKY45) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/39.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
7377
Internet Explorer 11
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
4043
Internet Explorer 10
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
4043
Internet Explorer 9
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
4043
Sitemaps protocol, which is a way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites (also used by Google in Webmaster Tools), supports URLs with less than 2048 characters. So if you are planning to use this feature for Search Engine Optimization, take this into account.
WWW FAQs: What is the maximum length of a URL? has its own answer based on empirical testing and research. The short answer is that going over 2048 characters makes Internet Explorer unhappy and thus this is the limit you should use. See the page for a long answer.
According to the HTTP spec, there is no limit to a URL's length. Keep your URLs under 2048 characters; this will ensure the URLs work in all clients & server configurations. Also, search engines like URLs to remain under approximately 2000 characters.
There is really no universal maximum URL length. The max length is determined only by what the client browser chooses to support, which varies widely. The 2,083 limit is only present in Internet Explorer (all versions up to 7.0). The max length in Firefox and Safari seems to be unlimited, although instability occurs with URLs reaching around 65,000 characters. Opera seems to have no max URL length whatsoever, and doesn't suffer instability at extremely long lengths.
On Apple platforms (iOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS), the limit may be a 2 GB long URL scheme, as seen by this comment in the source code of Swift:
// Make sure the URL string isn't too long. // We're limiting it to 2GB for backwards compatibility with 32-bit executables using NS/CFURL if ( (urlStringLength > 0) && (urlStringLength <= INT_MAX) ) { ...
On iOS, I've tested and confirmed that even a 300+ MB long URL is accepted. You can try such a long URL like this in Objective-C:
NSString *path = [@"a:" stringByPaddingToLength:314572800 withString:@"a" startingAtIndex:0];
NSString *js = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"window.location.href = \"%@\";", path];
[self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:js];
And catch if it succeed with:
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
NSLog(@"length: %@", @(request.URL.absoluteString.length));
return YES;
}
ASP.NET 2 and SQL Server reporting services 2005 have a limit of 2028. I found this out the hard way, where my dynamic URL generator would not pass over some parameters to a report beyond that point. This was under Internet Explorer 8.
It seems that Chrome at least has raised this limit. I pasted 20,000 characters into the bookmarklet and it took it.
I have experience with SharePoint 2007, 2010 and there is a limit of the length URL you can create from the server side in this case SharePoint, so it depends mostly on, 1) the client (browser, version, and OS) and 2) the server technology, IIS, Apache, etc.
On Apple platforms (iOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS), the limit may be a 2 GB long URL scheme, as seen by this comment in the source code of Swift:
// Make sure the URL string isn't too long. // We're limiting it to 2GB for backwards compatibility with 32-bit executables using NS/CFURL if ( (urlStringLength > 0) && (urlStringLength <= INT_MAX) ) { ...
On iOS, I've tested and confirmed that even a 300+ MB long URL is accepted. You can try such a long URL like this in Objective-C:
NSString *path = [@"a:" stringByPaddingToLength:314572800 withString:@"a" startingAtIndex:0];
NSString *js = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"window.location.href = \"%@\";", path];
[self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:js];
And catch if it succeed with:
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
NSLog(@"length: %@", @(request.URL.absoluteString.length));
return YES;
}
The HTTP 1.1 specification says:
URIs in HTTP can be represented in absolute form or relative to some
known base URI [11], depending upon the context of their use. The two
forms are differentiated by the fact that absolute URIs always begin
with a scheme name followed by a colon. For definitive information on
URL syntax and semantics, see "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics," RFC 2396 [42] (which replaces RFCs 1738 [4] and RFC 1808 [11]). This specification adopts the definitions of "URI-reference", "absoluteURI", "relativeURI", "port",
"host","abs_path", "rel_path", and "authority" from that
specification.The HTTP protocol does not place any a priori limit on the length of
a URI. Servers MUST be able to handle the URI of any resource they serve, and SHOULD be able to handle URIs of unbounded length if they provide GET-based forms that could generate such URIs.* A server SHOULD return 414 (Request-URI Too Long) status if a URI is longer than the server can handle (see section 10.4.15).Note: Servers ought to be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes, because some older client or proxy implementations might not properly support these lengths.
As mentioned by @Brian, the HTTP clients (e.g. browsers) may have their own limits, and HTTP servers will have different limits.
In URL as UI Jakob Nielsen recommends:
the social interface to the Web relies on email when users want to recommend Web pages to each other, and email is the second-most common way users get to new sites (search engines being the most common): make sure that all URLs on your site are less than 78 characters long so that they will not wrap across a line feed.
This is not the maximum but I'd consider this a practical maximum if you want your URL to be shared.
Why is the Internet Explorer limit only 2K while IIS has a limit of 16K? I don't think it makes sense.
So I want to start an experiment about Ajax request URL size limits.
I have set my Tomcat HTTP connector's maxHttpHeaderSize="1048576". And prepared a very long URL.
Then I send a request with the long URL like the following:
var url="/ajax/url-length.jsp";
jQuery.ajax(url,{data:{q:"0".repeat(1048000-url.length-4)}});
jQuery reports done. Tomcat reports the URL requested is 1048015 bytes. It was tested with Chrome 50 and Internet Explorer 11.
So web browsers won't truncate or limit your URL intentionally when sending Ajax requests.
In URL as UI Jakob Nielsen recommends:
the social interface to the Web relies on email when users want to recommend Web pages to each other, and email is the second-most common way users get to new sites (search engines being the most common): make sure that all URLs on your site are less than 78 characters long so that they will not wrap across a line feed.
This is not the maximum but I'd consider this a practical maximum if you want your URL to be shared.
The URI RFC (of which URLs are a subset) doesn't define a maximum length, however, it does recommend that the hostname part of the URI (if applicable) not exceed 255 characters in length:
URI producers should use names that conform to the DNS syntax, even when use of DNS is not immediately apparent, and should limit these names to no more than 255 characters in length.
As noted in other posts though, some browsers have a practical limitation on the length of a URL.
WWW FAQs: What is the maximum length of a URL? has its own answer based on empirical testing and research. The short answer is that going over 2048 characters makes Internet Explorer unhappy and thus this is the limit you should use. See the page for a long answer.
The longest URLs I came across are data URLs
Example image URL from Google image results (11747 characters)
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I wrote this test that keeps on adding 'a' to parameter until the browser fails
C# part:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)]
public ActionResult ParamTest(string x)
{
ViewBag.TestLength = 0;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(x))
{
System.IO.File.WriteAllLines("c:/result.txt",
new[] {Request.UserAgent, x.Length.ToString()});
ViewBag.TestLength = x.Length + 1;
}
return View();
}
View:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var text = "a";
for (var i = 0; i < parseInt(@ViewBag.TestLength)-1; i++) {
text += "a";
}
document.location.href = "http://localhost:50766/Home/ParamTest?x=" + text;
});
</script>
PART 1
On Chrome I got:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36
2046
It then blew up with:
HTTP Error 404.15 - Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request where the query string is too long.
Same on Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
2046
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
2046
PART 2
I went easy mode and added additional limits to IISExpress applicationhost.config and web.config setting maxQueryStringLength="32768".
Chrome failed with message 'Bad Request - Request Too Long
HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long.
after 7744 characters.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36
7744
PART 3
<headerLimits>
<add header="Content-type" sizeLimit="32768" />
</headerLimits>
which didn't help at all. I finally decided to use fiddler to remove the referrer from header.
static function OnBeforeRequest(oSession: Session) {
if (oSession.url.Contains("localhost:50766")) {
oSession.RequestHeaders.Remove("Referer");
}
Which did nicely.
Chrome: got to 15613 characters. (I guess it's a 16K limit for IIS)
And it failed again with:
<BODY><h2>Bad Request - Request Too Long</h2>
<hr><p>HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long.</p>
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36
15613
Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
15708
Internet Explorer 8 failed with iexplore.exe crashing.
After 2505
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
2505
Android Emulator
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1; Android SDK built for x86 Build/LKY45) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/39.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
7377
Internet Explorer 11
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
4043
Internet Explorer 10
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
4043
Internet Explorer 9
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
4043
Limit request line directive sets the maximum length of a URL. By default, it is set to 8190, which gives you a lot of room. However other servers and some browses, limit the length more.
Because all parameters are passed on the URL line, items that were in password of hidden fields will also be displayed in the URL of course. Neither mobile should be used for real security measures and should be considered cosmetic security at best.
Microsoft Support says "Maximum URL length is 2,083 characters in Internet Explorer".
IE has problems with URLs longer than that. Firefox seems to work fine with >4k chars.
WWW FAQs: What is the maximum length of a URL? has its own answer based on empirical testing and research. The short answer is that going over 2048 characters makes Internet Explorer unhappy and thus this is the limit you should use. See the page for a long answer.
ASP.NET 2 and SQL Server reporting services 2005 have a limit of 2028. I found this out the hard way, where my dynamic URL generator would not pass over some parameters to a report beyond that point. This was under Internet Explorer 8.
Sitemaps protocol, which is a way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites (also used by Google in Webmaster Tools), supports URLs with less than 2048 characters. So if you are planning to use this feature for Search Engine Optimization, take this into account.
The HTTP 1.1 specification says:
URIs in HTTP can be represented in absolute form or relative to some
known base URI [11], depending upon the context of their use. The two
forms are differentiated by the fact that absolute URIs always begin
with a scheme name followed by a colon. For definitive information on
URL syntax and semantics, see "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics," RFC 2396 [42] (which replaces RFCs 1738 [4] and RFC 1808 [11]). This specification adopts the definitions of "URI-reference", "absoluteURI", "relativeURI", "port",
"host","abs_path", "rel_path", and "authority" from that
specification.The HTTP protocol does not place any a priori limit on the length of
a URI. Servers MUST be able to handle the URI of any resource they serve, and SHOULD be able to handle URIs of unbounded length if they provide GET-based forms that could generate such URIs.* A server SHOULD return 414 (Request-URI Too Long) status if a URI is longer than the server can handle (see section 10.4.15).Note: Servers ought to be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes, because some older client or proxy implementations might not properly support these lengths.
As mentioned by @Brian, the HTTP clients (e.g. browsers) may have their own limits, and HTTP servers will have different limits.
Microsoft Support says "Maximum URL length is 2,083 characters in Internet Explorer".
IE has problems with URLs longer than that. Firefox seems to work fine with >4k chars.
Source: Stackoverflow.com