What is the maximum amount of data i passed through querystring of jquery ajax?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

Query strings form part of the URL for an HTTP GET request, so the main limit you'll hit is URL length.

Here's a question about that: What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers?

So for typical browsers stay inside of 2,000 characters in total. But keep in mind that other clients may not deal with URLs of this length (e.g. proxy / caching servers).

I'd recommend that staying under 500 characters you should be safe. Anything more and consider using a POST request instead.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '11 at 14:25

This would depend on the browser and/or server

IE 4.0 and above is ~2048 characters

All other browsers seem to support much more. So basically if you are trying to implement a cross browser web site/application then its probably best not to exceed 2048 characters.

Also note Web servers can be configured to limit the amount of data passed though a QueryString. This is rare but it can be done.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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The maximum url length for any http request varies from browser to browser. Jquery won't limit you, but the browser the request is being made from will.

See this post: What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers?

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