Originally posted by Michael Zalewski:
POST must be used if you are submitting a lot of information, because of the maximum size of a URL (I think its 4K characters).
According to
RFC 2068 there is no maximum length limit for a URL defined in the HTTP protocol. It is just some Proxys that cut off URLs which are longer than 4K. Some old browsers even support only URLs up to a maximum length of 255 chars.
So to avoid those limitations it is
highly recommended that a GET request with all parameters is not longer than 255 chars, while for POST-requests there is virtually no limit at all.
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Hartmut
[ September 07, 2002: Message edited by: Hartmut Ludwig ]
[ September 07, 2002: Message edited by: Hartmut Ludwig ]