[Interest] Maximum URL length

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 06:15:42 PDT Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> Just in case: both HTTP and HTML recommend a maximum of 1024 (ASCII)
> characters for a URL. Servers are free to ignore header lines with longer
> URLs in them and browsers are free to cut them as well. Note that this is
> a recommendation, not a requirement.
> 
> ...it all depends on how safe and compatible you want to be.

Additionally, most webservers come pre-configured to reject HTTP headers 
larger than 4 kB. This includes the URL but also all the cookies.

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