Is there a limit to the length of a GET request

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W3C unequivocally disclaimed this as a myth here   http   www w3 org 2001 tag doc get7 myths

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Not in the RFC  no  but there are practical limits   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 should be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes  because some older client or proxy implementations may not properly support these lengths

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This article sums it up pretty well Summary  It s implementation dependent  as there is no specified limit in the RFC  It d be safe to use up to 2000 characters  IE s limit   If you are anywhere near this length  you should make sure you really need URIs that long  maybe an alternative design could get around that  URIs should be readable  even when used to send data

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W3C unequivocally disclaimed this as a myth here   http   www w3 org 2001 tag doc get7 myths

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setFixedLengthStreamingMode int  with contentLength parameters could set the fixed length of a HTTP request body

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As Requested By User Erickson  I Post My comment As Answer   I have done some more testing with IE8  IE9  FF14  Opera11  Chrome20 and Tomcat 6 0 32  fresh installation   Jersey 1 13 on the server side  I used the jQuery function   getJson and JSONP  Results  All Browsers allowed up to around 5400 chars  FF and IE9 did up to around 6200 chars  Everything above returned  400 Bad request   I did not further investigate what was responsible for the 400  I was fine with the maximum I found  because I needed around 2000 chars in my case

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As Requested By User Erickson  I Post My comment As Answer   I have done some more testing with IE8  IE9  FF14  Opera11  Chrome20 and Tomcat 6 0 32  fresh installation   Jersey 1 13 on the server side  I used the jQuery function   getJson and JSONP  Results  All Browsers allowed up to around 5400 chars  FF and IE9 did up to around 6200 chars  Everything above returned  400 Bad request   I did not further investigate what was responsible for the 400  I was fine with the maximum I found  because I needed around 2000 chars in my case

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The specification does not limit the length of an HTTP Get request but the different browsers implement their own limitations  For example Internet Explorer has a limitation implemented at 2083 characters

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Not in the RFC  no  but there are practical limits   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 should be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes  because some older client or proxy implementations may not properly support these lengths

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This article sums it up pretty well Summary  It s implementation dependent  as there is no specified limit in the RFC  It d be safe to use up to 2000 characters  IE s limit   If you are anywhere near this length  you should make sure you really need URIs that long  maybe an alternative design could get around that  URIs should be readable  even when used to send data

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The specification does not limit the length of an HTTP Get request but the different browsers implement their own limitations  For example Internet Explorer has a limitation implemented at 2083 characters

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The specification does not limit the length of an HTTP Get request but the different browsers implement their own limitations  For example Internet Explorer has a limitation implemented at 2083 characters

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Not in the RFC  no  but there are practical limits   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 should be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes  because some older client or proxy implementations may not properly support these lengths

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This article sums it up pretty well Summary  It s implementation dependent  as there is no specified limit in the RFC  It d be safe to use up to 2000 characters  IE s limit   If you are anywhere near this length  you should make sure you really need URIs that long  maybe an alternative design could get around that  URIs should be readable  even when used to send data

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Not in the RFC  no  but there are practical limits   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 should be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes  because some older client or proxy implementations may not properly support these lengths

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setFixedLengthStreamingMode int  with contentLength parameters could set the fixed length of a HTTP request body

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This article sums it up pretty well Summary  It s implementation dependent  as there is no specified limit in the RFC  It d be safe to use up to 2000 characters  IE s limit   If you are anywhere near this length  you should make sure you really need URIs that long  maybe an alternative design could get around that  URIs should be readable  even when used to send data

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The specification does not limit the length of an HTTP Get request but the different browsers implement their own limitations  For example Internet Explorer has a limitation implemented at 2083 characters

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