Internet Explorer URL Character Limit is 2,083
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.