# .Q.hg limit?
**URL:** https://forum.kx.com/t/q-hg-limit/11651
**Category:** Community Support
**Tags:** kdb-and-q
**Created:** [December 7, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/q-hg-limit/11651 "2017-12-07T06:24:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ag12](https://forum.kx.com/u/ag12)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/q-hg-limit/11651/1 "2017-12-07T06:24:00Z")
What is the max url length accepted by .Q.hg (HTTP GET)?
I looked in .q.k, it doesn’t appear that .Q.hmb or Q.hg checks for a limit.
Please update the documentation @ [http://code.kx.com/q/ref/dotq/#qhg-http-get](http://code.kx.com/q/ref/dotq/#qhg-http-get) with the max length.
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2659952/maximum-length-of-http-get-request](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2659952/maximum-length-of-http-get-request)
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q)u1:“[https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/market/batch?symbols=ASRV,BAC,BANR,BBT,BK,BOH,BOKF,BPFH,BRKL,BXS,C,CBSH,CBU,CFR,CMA,COLB,CVBF,DCOM,EWBC,FCF,FHN,FITB,FMBI,FULT,HBAN&types=quote,stats&filter=peRatio,priceToSales,priceToBook,returnOnEquity,marketCap](https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/market/batch?symbols=ASRV,BAC,BANR,BBT,BK,BOH,BOKF,BPFH,BRKL,BXS,C,CBSH,CBU,CFR,CMA,COLB,CVBF,DCOM,EWBC,FCF,FHN,FITB,FMBI,FULT,HBAN&types=quote,stats&filter=peRatio,priceToSales,priceToBook,returnOnEquity,marketCap)”
q)u2:“[https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/market/batch?symbols=ASRV,BAC,BANR,BBT,BK,BOH,BOKF,BPFH,BRKL,BXS,C,CBSH,CBU,CFR,CMA,COLB,CVBF,DCOM,EWBC,FCF,FHN,FITB,FMBI,FULT,HBAN,JPM&types=quote,stats&filter=peRatio,priceToSales,priceToBook,returnOnEquity,marketCap](https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/market/batch?symbols=ASRV,BAC,BANR,BBT,BK,BOH,BOKF,BPFH,BRKL,BXS,C,CBSH,CBU,CFR,CMA,COLB,CVBF,DCOM,EWBC,FCF,FHN,FITB,FMBI,FULT,HBAN,JPM&types=quote,stats&filter=peRatio,priceToSales,priceToBook,returnOnEquity,marketCap)”
q)count u1
251
q)count u2 // added “,JPM” (4 more chars), note that this url works in Chrome v62
255
q).Q.hg `$u1 // works
"{"ASRV":{"quote":{"peRatio":null,"marketCap":78577443},"stats":{"priceToSales":1.3475348,"priceToBook":0.81,"returnOnEquity":5.52}},"BAC":{"quote":{"peRati..
q).Q.hg `$u2 // doesn’t work :(
'domain
[0].Q.hg `$u2
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2017.11.06
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### Author:  [@charlie1](https://forum.kx.com/u/charlie1)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/q-hg-limit/11651/2 "2017-12-07T10:17:00Z")
kdb+ treats this as a path, and currently is limited to 254. This will be increased in the next version of kdb+ (3.6).
In the meantime, can you use post requests?
thanks
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### Author:  [@ag12](https://forum.kx.com/u/ag12)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/q-hg-limit/11651/3 "2017-12-07T21:47:00Z")
Unfortunately not.
[https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/#http-methods](https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/#http-methods)
\>The IEX API only supports **GET** requests at this time.