At 1:19 PM -0400 7/11/08, Daniel Brown wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Incidentally, I did some minor testing on this a few years ago and found the
 lengths vary greatly between servers.

    .... and browsers.  If I remember correctly, on Winblows alone,
Opera is capable of somewhere in the 4,500 character range, while
Internet Exploder is only capable of 2048+slack (2083 bytes).  And
pre-1.0 HTTP days, it was common for many servers not to accept more
than 255 characters on GET.


Yes, those are generally the numbers I found as well.

In my more current test, I had one test that exceeded 5000 characters, but most were in the 2000 character range.

So what it boils down to is, you can send a respectable number of characters via a GET, but if it's going to be in the 1K range, it's best to test (it's best to test anyway).

Cheers,

tedd

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