Title: Request-URI Too Large
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Request-URI Too Large

 *  [i_Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/i_mike/)
 * (@i_mike)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-uri-too-large-9/)
 * Hi Michael
 * I’ve got quite a bit of columns to export to a CSV file and I use the shortcode
   to generate a link (and also to add table headers). The link that I get in the
   end is 10269 characters long, the Apache limits is 8000 hence I get the following
   error:
 * Request-URI Too Large
    The requested URL’s length exceeds the capacity limit 
   for this server.
 * My hosting cannot increase the limit as it’s a shared one and I’d have to get
   a separate VPS.
    Is there any other way to export the CSV file? Can I add a function
   or something? I only need to specify the “show” and “headers”.
 * Looking forward to your reply.
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 *  Thread Starter [i_Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/i_mike/)
 * (@i_mike)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-uri-too-large-9/#post-7065568)
 * Can we maybe use $_POST method instead of GET?
 *  Thread Starter [i_Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/i_mike/)
 * (@i_mike)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-uri-too-large-9/#post-7065649)
 * Maybe we could rename the headers before they’re created? (as I need to have 
   spaces in the column names and that’s trimmed)
 * So, let’s say I’d call an input field “1” and then have a function to rename “
   1” to “address 1” for example – is that possible?
    That way I could save characters
   in the export url as I wouldn’t have to add table headers in the url.
 *  Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/)
 * (@msimpson)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-uri-too-large-9/#post-7065657)
 * I know this can be a problem. It might work if you use POST. I suggest you create
   an HTML file with a FORM with method=”POST” then put all of the parameters as
   INPUTS on the form. Then try loading and submitting it.

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 * Last reply from: [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-uri-too-large-9/#post-7065657)
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