Question

When i try to debug using Firebug , i saw this 414 error.

In IE 6 am getting error when post 20 records, in Mozilla its more than 50,
in IE 8 more than 100.

When i Google it , i find it as server thing , something to do with Apache.

Am using Jquery , Ajax ,PHP combination.

Page redirect is also there after submission

Please share Any information regarding this error .

Answer 1

Yes, depents on the browser. If you have such long url’s you have a design problem anyway.

Found this on the internet, bit outdated but gives you an idea how long an url can be. If your posting data use the POST method instead of a GET.

Microsoft Internet Explorer (Browser)

Microsoft states that the maximum
length of a URL in Internet Explorer
is 2,083 characters, with no more than
2,048 characters in the path portion
of the URL. In my tests, attempts to
use URLs longer than this produced a
clear error message in Internet
Explorer.

Firefox (Browser)

After 65,536 characters, the location
bar no longer displays the URL in
Windows Firefox 1.5.x. However, longer
URLs will work. I stopped testing
after 100,000 characters.

Safari (Browser)

At least 80,000 characters will work.
I stopped testing after 80,000
characters. Opera (Browser)

At least 190,000 characters will work.
I stopped testing after 190,000
characters. Opera 9 for Windows
continued to display a fully editable,
copyable and pasteable URL in the
location bar even at 190,000
characters.

Apache (Server)

My early attempts to measure the
maximum URL length in web browsers
bumped into a server URL length limit
of approximately 4,000 characters,
after which Apache produces a "413
Entity Too Large" error. I used the
current up to date Apache build found
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The
official Apache documentation only
mentions an 8,192-byte limit on an
individual field in a request.