Need help: HTML max char post thrgh form

opdsimran

Hi,

Want to know abt max how many char is allowed to post through HTML Form..??

djkanebo

I don't think there is a limit... not one that should have any consequence with anythin you do anyway. I know the method get has got a limit though and there was this one time I had a prob with a form because I didn't have method=post included...

hope this is right!

opdsimran

Hi,

Thnks djkanebo..

atleast can u tell me max size limit for a char while posting through form GET method..??

epimeth

255 characters comes to mind... but I'm not sure.

a quick google search on "maximum querystring length" brought up

from http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20000724/014780.html
Hi doug
The Safest would be 1000 characters max.IE 4.0 and above can take
care of query strings upto a length 2000 characters

Cherian

and following a link from another site google showed

from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q208427

Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length of 2,083 characters, with a maximum path length of 2,048 characters. This limit applies to both POST and GET request URLs.

If you are using the GET method, you are limited to a maximum of 2,048 characters (minus the number of characters in the actual path, of course).

POST, however, is not limited by the size of the URL for submitting name/value pairs, because they are transferred in the header and not the URL.

well... I guess I was very wrong about the 255....

really, it depends upon the size of you're browser's address bar. netscape 4 could apparently handle up to 30,000 characters, but 6 doesn't get much past 9000