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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:11:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Shannon Chen <shannonc_us@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Maximum url length
To: Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
In-Reply-To: <MABBIFAIKNPMIIABCJANEECAGNAA.deacon_marcus@wwtech.pl>
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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. 


--- Deacon Marcus <deacon_marcus@wwtech.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> It's not a good idea. Try changing GET to POST. In
> case you don't know -
> request uris are often cached, logged, etc, so
> sending any data, especially
> passwords in them is a suicide or worse.
> 
>
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.2.1
> "The HTTP protocol does not place any a priori limit
> on the length of a URI.
> Servers MUST be able to handle the URI of any
> resource they serve, and
> SHOULD be able to handle URIs of unbounded length if
> they provide GET-based
> forms that could generate such URIs. A server SHOULD
> return 414 (Request-URI
> Too Long) status if a URI is longer than the server
> can handle (see section
> 10.4.15).
> 
>       Note: Servers ought to be cautious about
> depending on URI lengths
>       above 255 bytes, because some older client or
> proxy
>       implementations might not properly support
> these lengths."
> 
> Greetings, deacon Marcus
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: karkoma [mailto:abambala@genasys.es]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 7:48 PM
> > To: Tomcat Users List
> > Subject: Maximum url length
> >
> >
> > Hi...
> >
> > I'm trying to send a long uri to Tomcat 3.3 but it
> complains with
> > error code
> > 414, (414 Request-URI Too Long). However Apache
> can handle the same url.
> >
> > Is there a way to tell Tomcat to admit long uris /
> urls??
> > Something like this
> >
> >  lynx -dump
> >
>
"localhost:8080/ABC/myservlet?request=%3C%3Fxml+version%3D%221.0%2
> >
>
2+encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0D%0A%3CGPPR%3E%0D%0A%09%3CFUNCION+
>
type%3D%22UPDATE%22%3EcreateUser%3C%2FFUNCION%3E%0D%0A%09%>
>
3CAUTENTIFICATION%3E%0D%0A%09%09%3CCLIENT%3Ecesar%3C%2FCLIENT%3E%0
> >
>
D%0A%09%09%3CCLI_PASSWD%3Ecesar%3C%2FCLI_PASSWD%3E%0D%0A%09%09%3CU
>
SER_LOGIN%3Ecesar%3C%2FUSER_LOGIN%3E%0D%0A%09%09%3CUSER_PASSWD%3Ecesar%>
>
3C%2FUSER_PASSWD%3E%0D%0A%09%3C%2FAUTENTIFICATION%3E%0D%0A%09%3CPA
> >
>
RAMETERS+identype%3D%22MSISDN%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3
> >
>
D%22USER%22+param%3D%22Y%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%3COBJECT%3E%0D%0A%09
> >
>
%09%09%09%3CCLASS%3EUSER%3C%2FCLASS%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%3CCONTENT
> >
>
S%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3D%22TIMEOUTVALIDATE%22
> >
>
%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%3CINT+val%3D%220%22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%
> >
>
09%09%09%3C%2FATTRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3
> >
>
D%22MASTERLOC%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%3CCHAR+val%3D%22N%22%2
> >
>
F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3C%2FATTRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3CATT!
> >
>
RIBUTE+name%3D%22PUBLIC%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%3CCHAR+val%3
> >
>
D%22N%22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3C%2FATTRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%
> >
>
09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3D%22NAME%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%
> >
>
3CSTRING+val%3D%22UserTest%22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3C%2FATTR
>
IBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3D%22MSISDN%22%3E%0D%0A%>
>
09%09%09%09%09%09%3CSTRING+val%3D%2234686966458%22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%
> >
>
09%09%09%09%3C%2FATTRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+nam
> >
>
e%3D%22USERDATA%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%3CSTRING+val%3D%22Da
>
tos+de+Utest%22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3C%2FATTRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%>
>
09%09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3D%22IDPROFILE%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%0
> >
>
9%09%09%3CINT+val%3D%221%22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3C%2FATTRIB
>
UTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3D%22VALIDATED%22%3E%0D%>
>
0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%3CCHAR+val%3D%22Y%22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%
> >
>
09%3C%2FATTRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3CATTRIBUTE+name%3D%22DA
>
TEINS%22%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%3CSTRING+val%3D%22%!
> >
>
22%2F%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09%3C%2FATTRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%
> >
>
3C%2FCONTENTS%3E%0D%0A%09%09%09%3C%2FOBJECT%3E%0D%0A%09%09%3C%2FAT
>
TRIBUTE%3E%0D%0A%09%3C%2FPARAMETERS%3E%0D%0A%3C%2FGPPR%3E%0D%0A"
> >
> > Thanx.
> > Alberto
> >
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