How do I increase the maxUrlLength property in the config in asp.net MVC 3?

Question

I am getting this error:

The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value.

Looking around the

Answer 1

In my case, I edited the setting visually in the IIS application (Request Filtering area):

This action modified my web.config as follows:

As was mentioned in some of the other answers, be sure to also consider long query strings in the request.