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Asked: 2026-05-11T06:38:53+00:00

I have PHP 5.1.6 (cli) installed and whenever the GET query string is more

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I have PHP 5.1.6 (cli) installed and whenever the GET query string is more than 128 characters it fails with HTTP 406 Not Acceptable error. Any suggestions how I can fix this so can use more than 128 characters? POST is not an option.

The error is being returned by the server so don’t think it’s browser issue. And the reason I think it’s PHP and not Apache is because it works fine with an HTML file.

 GET /test.php?phptestof129characterstring-NEW-WOVEN-FENCE-PANELS-GARDEN_W0QQitemZ200303392512QQihZ010QQcategoryZ139954QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem HTTP/1.1 Host: ***** User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: agent_name=Tim  HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:05:33 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html 
 GET /test.html?phptestof129characterstring-NEW-WOVEN-FENCE-PANELS-GARDEN_W0QQitemZ200303392512QQihZ010QQcategoryZ139954QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem HTTP/1.1 Host: ***** User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: agent_name=Tim  HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:18:19 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Last-Modified: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:01:17 GMT ETag: '156960d-221-94be8940' Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 545 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html
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  1. Have found answer thanks to comment from Ben.

    Although this generates 406 error: test.php?129+characters

    This works fine: test.php?data=129+characters

    So my guess is that in the first instance PHP is attempting to use the 129 characters as name in $_GET array whereas the second example has only 4 characters for the name and the rest is assigned as value, so array must have 128 character limit for index name.

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