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Asked: 2026-05-11T15:10:04+00:00

I am designing a web application which is a tie in to my iPhone

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I am designing a web application which is a tie in to my iPhone application. It sends massively large URLs to the web server (15000 about.) I was using NearlyFreeSpeech.net, but they only support URLS up to 2000 characters. I was wondering if anybody knows of web hosting that will support really large URLs? Thanks, Isaac

Edit: My program needs to open a picture in Safari. I could do this 2 ways:

  • send it base64 encoded in the URL and just echo the query parameters.
  • first POST it to the server in my application, then the server would send back a unique ID after storing the photo in a database, which I would append to a URL which I would open in Safari which retrieved the photo from the database and delete it from the database.

You see, I am lazy, and I know Mobile Safari can support URI’s up to 80 000 characters, so I think this is a OK way to do it. If there is something really wrong with this, please tell me.

Edit: I ended up doing it the proper POST way. Thanks.

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  1. If you’re sending 15,000 character long URLs, in all likelyhood:

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    Use something like an HTTP POST instead.

    The limitations you’re running up against aren’t so much an issue with the hosts – it’s more the fact that web servers have a limit for the length of a URL. According to this page, Apache limits you to around 4k characters, and IIS limits you to 16k by default.

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