SharePoint Max URL Size

 

SharePoint Max URL Size Recently, we've had some discussions about the question whether the SharePoint 260 character URL limit is still in effect in SharePoint 2007. We thought we might write a little blog post about it providing an overview of some facts about SharePoint size limits... A site name is allowed to consist of a max length of 128 characters. You can create multiple sub sites but the maximum URL length of a sub site is 237. This length excludes the part apparently reserved for system files and folders. If you try to create a new page the system path /_layouts/newsbweb.aspx is added to the URL, which makes a total of 260 characters. After reaching that limit, you can still add lists and have subfolders in them. The max length of a doc library name is 255 characters. The max length of a folder name is 123 characters. The max length of a SharePoint URL including lists and folders is 256, excluding system files (for example, /Forms/AllItems.aspx). The max length of a SharePoint URL does not include the querystring portion. The max limit of the querystring portion depends on browser limitations. For example, MSIE 6 supports a total of 2047 characters (almost 2K), FireFox doesn't really seem to have a limit. To make our testing a little bit easier, we wrote a little tool called the 'URL Length Checker'. Everybody is welcome to download it and use it within their own test scenarios. The tool requires the presence of the .NET 2.0 framework. Download the URL Length Checker or download it's source.