Prismic API only 8000 character support in GET request?

[l.kosters (Leon Kosters)]

Hello Prismic Community!

Yesterday I encountered a problem with a larger page query on a project I am working on.
Been struggling to find the answer but I know what the problem is now.

The page-query I am trying to run currently is 8900 characters long. Removing white-space does not solve the problem and I did not get a proper error response.

My question is, is this being solved by Prismic or do you have a solution for this problem?

Greetings,
Leon

[Phil (Phil Snow)]

Hi Leon,

Welcome to the community!

This is something that we discuss in more length here (but it's essentially something we want to resolve in the future):

413 Request Entity Too Large

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