I am currently programming an API that gets passed data via get parameters so I was wondering if the total length of the URL or of the parameters value is limited in best practice or by the protocol.
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I am currently programming an API that gets passed data via get parameters so I was wondering if the total length of the URL or of the parameters value is limited in best practice or by the protocol.
Basically, 2K is the most you can rely on in a cross-browser fashion, but if you drop support for IE 8 and below, you can get to like 64K.
Although I feel I need to question your need to know this, anything over say.. 100 characters would best be handled through a POST request instead of a GET.