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Maximum url length in Internet Explorer 8

The maximum length of the url field in Internet Explorer 7 is 2083 chars.

Do you know the max length in IE8?

I can't confirm it as at the moment I am stuck with a fresh win7/IE8
installation and cannot boot my test images on another disk pack, but I did
some testing back in IE8 beta 1 and 2 and found that there was no
documentation that the limit had been increased. I could not find any test
cases either to benchmark the browser versions, so I would assume that it
still applies to all builds of IE8. The reason for the limit in IE browsers
(I believe) was to stop buffer overflows and a subsequent security exploit,
so I believe the "Don't fix it unless it is broke" rule applies.

You can workaround the limit by using form posts instead of gets.

TvMpt

Different size limits on URI length in different browsers. As far as I know for now IE8 supports up to 32 kilobytes in data: value. Even though all other browsers support bigger sizes, our limit will obviously be 32Kb.

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skvikram

there is no limit for a programmer see this:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/a4bc424d-564b-479d-a47f-7253a99dded9/

thanet

According to http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/32876480/why-do-longer-urls-break-calling-url-protocol-handlers.aspx

http://search.msn.com/results.asp?FORM=sCPN&RS=CHECKED&un=doc&v=1&q=maximum+length+URL+site%3Asupport.microsoft.com

Maximum URL length is 2,083 characters in Internet Explorer

512 is the limit for shellexecute arguments though.

PRB: ShellExecuteEx Limits URL to MAX_PATH
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263909