Is there an absolute limit to how much data you can put in mailto: body parameter?

Asked 23/8, 2012 at 12:50 Answered 27/8, 2012 at 15:45

Given I'm creating a mailto: hyperlink. Is there a absolute limit to how much data you can put in mailto: body parameter?

Is this browser dependent?

Oza answered 23/8, 2012 at 12:50 Comment(0)

I believe these is a limit to the mailto URI. And I believe that limit is dependent on the browser.

Like they suggest in that answer, I would suggest doing some sort of server side processing of the data, most likely in a POST over a GET.

Also from that question, this link (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q208427) was presented and tells that IE has a limit of 2083 characters in a URL.

Strategy answered 27/8, 2012 at 15:45 Comment(0)

I think there's a max of 8000 chars in a URI defined in some spec somewhere

More than you'll ever need :)

Writ answered 23/8, 2012 at 12:52 Comment(2)

Not more than I ever need, I'd like to be able to put somewhere around 32-96K in it. – Oza 23/8, 2012 at 13:32

Sounds like should probably POST that kind of data – Writ 23/8, 2012 at 22:42