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Question: Is there any limit for query string? if means what is the maximum size?.

Answer: 255 bytes (Request others to specify units for clarity)

255 bytes (Request others to specify units for clarity) Source: CoolInterview.com

it is 1024 bytes Source: CoolInterview.com

Servers should be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes, because some older client or proxy implementations may not properly support these lengths.
The spec for URL length does not dictate a minimum or maximum URL length, but implementation varies by browser. On Windows: Opera supports ~4050 characters, IE 4.0+ supports exactly 2083 characters, Netscape 3 -> 4.78 support up to 8192 characters before causing errors on shut-down, and Netscape 6 supports ~2000 before causing errors on start-up.

Note that there is no limit on the number of parameters you can stuff into a URL, but only on the length it can aggregate to.

Keep in mind that the number of characters will be significantly reduced if you have special characters (e.g. spaces) that need to be URLEncoded (e.g. converted to the sequence '%20'). For every space, you reduce the size allowed in the remainder of the URL by 2 characters - and this holds true for many other special characters that you may encode before sending the URL to the client.

Keep in mind, also, that the SGML spec declares that a URL as an attribute value (e.g. <a href='{url}'>) cannot be more than 1024 characters. Similarly, the GET request is stored in the server variable QUERY_STRING, which can have similar limitations in certain scenarios.

If you are hitting a limit on length, you should consider using POST instead of GET. POST does not have such low limits on the size of name/value pairs, because the data is sent in the header, not in the URL. The limit on POST size, by default, is 2 MB on IIS 4.0 and 128 KB on IIS 5.0. POST is also a little more secure than GET -- it's tougher (though not impossible) to tinker with the values of POSTed variables, than values sitting in the querystring. Source: CoolInterview.com

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