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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Check out this question and answers: Getting around mailto / href / url character limit

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.

Answer 2

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

More than you'll ever need :)