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Post limit.

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:28 pm
by Shendemiar
Is there any limit to the amount of data that can be posted or a lenght for a url getted?

Re: Post limit.

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:36 pm
by timvw
time to read the http1.1 specs ;)

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
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.
offcourse there is also a php restriction... max_upload or whatever it is called

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:36 pm
by markl999
The HTTP spec doesn't specify, so it will vary from server to server (possibly browser to browser as well).
IE has a limit of 2083 chars.

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:24 pm
by rehfeld
apache also has some settings.
i think i saw max request size once.