It would have to be a POST, but even that will start to have timeout issues. An 
API which requires that kind of input is kind of a bad idea. Perhaps you could 
describe what you’re trying to do?

Thanks,
doug

> On Jan 19, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Shraddha Pandhe <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> I am writing a Neutron extension which needs to take 1000s of network-ids as 
> argument for filtering. The CURL call is as follows:
> 
> curl -i -X GET 
> 'http://hostname:port/neutron/v2.0/extension_name.json?net-id=fffecbd1-0f6d-4f02-aee7-ca62094830f5&net-id=fffeee07-4f94-4cff-bf8e-a2aa7be59e2e'
>  -H "User-Agent: python-neutronclient" -H "Accept: application/json" -H 
> "X-Auth-Token: cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc"
> 
> 
> The list of net-ids can go up to 1000s. The problem is, with such large url, 
> I get the "Request URI too long" error. I don't want to update this limit as 
> proxies can have their own limits.
> 
> What options do I have to send 1000s of network IDs? 
> 
> 1. -d '{}' is not a recommended option for GET call and wsgi Controller drops 
> the data part when routing the request.
> 
> 2. Use POST instead of GET? I will need to write the get_<resource> logic 
> inside create_resource logic for this to work. Its a hack, but complies with 
> HTTP standard.
> 
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