How long of a URL can Internet Explorer 9 take?

Question

Past versions of Internet Explorer croaked on web addresses longer than 2,083 characters (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427). Meanwhile, Firefox, Opera, and Safari

Answer 1

I get 5120 characters in a url for internet explorer 9.

By no means a definitive test but the following demonstrates a quick check for url length of a href attribute in an anchor tag.

    
        
    
    
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