alt Hacker NewsYour link doesn't say URIs are length-limited
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layer8 • yesterday at 7:50 PM
They are in the sense that the recommended supported length is only 8000 bytes. There are no such specified length recommendations for HTTP body size.
Your link doesn't say URIs are length-limited
They are in the sense that the recommended supported length is only 8000 bytes. There are no such specified length recommendations for HTTP body size.
I'm guessing you never hit this issue then, but it's a real issue. Whether or not it's in the RFC as a hard limit it doesn't matter, no HTTP server will allow unlimited sized URIs.
You simply can't base64 large payloads and you're stuck with workarounds.