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Re: Limitations of a GET

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:59:54 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, M D wrote:

> Is there a limit on the size of a GET request?

Nope. Only the size of available RAM.

> More specifically, is there a limit to the size of the 3rd parameter
> (myurl)?

Not as imposed by libcurl.

> Also, are there any limits on the number of parameters and the size of the
> parameters?

No. You can send quite insanely huge amounts of data in an ordinary GET if
you want. libcurl should not be in your way when doing that.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2003-03-31