On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 5:13 PM Alan de Freitas via Boost
We're deciding on the max size for URLs in our Boost.URL proposal. The spec doesn't suggest a limit but the reasonable trade-off https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-u... is:
- 2^16 chars: More than all browsers, servers, and search engines support (~2000 chars). More than the HTTP minimum of 8000 octets. - 2^32 chars: "414 Too long request" in practice everywhere. Maybe supports experiments using URLs as a container for something else.
Any suggestions?
This recent Fossil-SCM thread (about althttpd) might be relevant: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/7f445ff3679a8fd6 I think personally 8KB or 16KB is enough. Your suggested 64KB is OK too, I guess. But your 4GB proposal seems way too big. I wouldn't go above 2^20 = 1MB myself, FWIW. --DD