Maximum characters in a URL

[temi]

I have been trying to build links to this url: http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/g...on-forums.html
its a horrendously long URL, not surprised that some directories form will not support url this long which makes me wonder what the official maximum characters in a url is according to whoever sets standards for such things?

I have seen somewhere that URL can be upto 255 characters. Yours is long but still less than that. I think some directory owners set validations on URL input but if they except deep links they should allow for 255 chars

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[inactive_jumpenjuhosaphat]

I don't know if there is an "official" length, I've seen URL's 400 or 500 characters in length. But, the domain name does have limitations, depending on the TLD, I think .coms are 64 maximum characters.

I think as far as submitting to directories is concerned, it depends more on the script that the directory is using, or what limitations the directory owner has set.