Request object size? 1

[DrHyper]

Hi
Whats the max size of a request object?

http://www.someplace.net/mypage.jsp?param1=1&param2=2&param3

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thnx.

 

[iaresean]

The maximum size of a url is 1024 characters.

 

[iaresean]

THATS THIS LONG: !!!!

ttpd:\\log.test.hmm/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdf

Wow, thats long.

 

[DrHyper]

thank you sean.
Do you have a link to some documentation?
and by the way: does it matter if its a POST or GET request?

thnx

 

[duncdude]

GET appends to the URL whereby POST is invisible. POST does not have the 1024 character limitation

Duncan

 

[DrHyper]

Thank you guys for your efforts... but:
I think you are wrong about the character limitation.
It seems that it is browser dependant.
Maximum URL Length Is 2,083 Characters in Internet Explorer
(GET method) as explained here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q208427

Some other good reading about POST/GET :

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html

DrHyper

 

[siberian]

Correct, 1024 is the RFC I believe. IE decided to extend it. They did this back in the late 90's during the browser wars. Those were crappy times to be a webdeveloper..

 

[DrHyper]

Hi
The RFC:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

Does NOT specify any requirement for URL length.
It is purely browser dependant.

I made a test in Opera - my favorite browser
And it worked with Url-length (Get method) 3000+

DrHyper

 

[iaresean]

Just testing some length quickly:

ttpd:\\log.test.hmm/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asdfghqwe/asd
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[philote]

RFC 1738 is all about URL's and also says nothing about a max length.