Yes, totally agree on that part! In fact, we tend to have had bad experiences with URLs over 4KB. Fortunately most of our stats requests come in at about 1KB.

Yes, totally agree on that part! In fact, we tend to have had bad experiences with URLs over 4KB. Fortunately most of our stats requests come in at about 1KB. We're in the process of moving over to POSTs. The second part of this series will go into more detail as to the "whys". The primary reason we use GETs is backwards compatibility; we wanted our new team to be a success and in ensuring that we thought carefully about the battles worth fighting - the Mixpanel stats client is a good one, so we opted for being "Mixpanel Protocol"-compatible; they use base64 encoded json blobs shipped using an HTTP GET, and thusly so do we.