[11223] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Query string length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Harding)
Mon Sep 14 16:47:21 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:36:37 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Derek Harding" <derek@fluentcomm.com>
To: "Boris Georgiev" <bge@sd-bul.bg>, <www-talk@w3.org>
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The limit used to be 256 chars and was dependant on the browser (and also
the server). These days I believe many browsers and servers deal with 8k or
even more.
That said I would recommend using the POST method for large chunks of data.
Derek
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Derek Harding
Technical Director, Fluent Communications
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-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Georgiev <bge@sd-bul.bg>
To: www-talk@w3.org <www-talk@w3.org>
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: Query string length
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone tell me what is the maximum length of the Query String
>and what does this limit depend on?
>
>Thanx.
>
>Boris Georgiev
>
