title: What is the maximum length for a querystring?
body: <p>I'm using HTTP requests in my program to pass data via a querystring  to a web-based status page.  The requests are of the form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://www.example.com/poststatus.asp?ID="FRED"&amp;widgetscompleted=1234&amp;...parameterN=valueN
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The ASP page parses the querystring and updates a database.</p>
  
  <p>My question is: what is the sensible length limit of the querystring?  I've seen mention of 2000-odd bytes but that seems to be browser-related and there is no browser involved here - just my app (using Indy) and IIS. </p>