Is the length of HTTP GET limited to 2048?

Asked Oct 29 '15 at 16:52

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the GET method adds the data to the URL; and the length of a URL is limited (maximum URL length is 2048 characters)

And from the HTTP SPEC:

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.

Is this a mistake from w3schools?

edited Oct 29 '15 at 16:56

Manos Nikolaidis

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Had a look at this?http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url-in-different-browsers – Marged Oct 29 '15 at 16:59
No it's not. There is a limit if you use older version of Internet Explorer. Look at [this thread](http://stackoverflow.com/q/417142/1413133) – Manos Nikolaidis Oct 29 '15 at 17:00
maybe this can help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2659952/maximum-length-of-http-get-request – Alex Tartan Oct 29 '15 at 17:01
a) it wouldn't be the first time, b) RFC 2616 is very out of data, you should look at RFC 7230 – Julian Reschke Oct 29 '15 at 20:08

Is the length of HTTP GET limited to 2048?

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