Always Get Better

Today I learned that Internet Explorer limits the site of GET requests to 2,083 characters.  Any URL longer than this cannot be used by the web browser.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427

I can’t help but wonder where that number comes from?  The closest power is 11 (2^11=2048), which doesn’t correspond at all to this limit.  Is it arbitrary?  Other web browsers (Firefox, Safari) do not have this limitation.

Has anyone else had this issue?

When I try to install Drupal on a Windows 2003 Apache server, I get a pause and then “Connection Reset” error under Firefox.  If I then try to install it using Internet Explorer, the installation process comes up immediately and works without a hitch.

I still can’t seem to get the admin ‘Modules’ page to load at all - PHP is crashing.  That is an entirely separate issue as far as I can tell.