Internet Explorer allows a URL with a maximum length of 2083 characters (maximum URL length is 2,083 characters in Internet Explorer)

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) Length of 2,083 characters. internet Explorer also has a maximum path length of 2,048 characters. this limit applies to both POST request and get request URLs.

If you are using the get method, you are limited to a maximum of 2,048 characters, minus the number of characters in the actual path.

However, the POST method is not limited by the size of the URL for submitting name/value pairs. These pairs are transferred in the header and not in the URL.

RFC 2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1," does not specify any requirement for URL length.

References

For a further breakdown of the components, see the wininet header file.

For more information, see "general syntax," section 3.2.1 of RFC 2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1," at the following Internet Society web site:
Ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt

Applies

Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programing) 6.0
Microsoft Iot Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Iot Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Iot explorer 5.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-bit Edition

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