puma/puma — pull request #408 by priyankc (2013-11-10 07:55:51+00:00)
Title: Increase the max URI path length to 2048 from 1024

Fixes Issue #404

As per MSDN knowledge base, max length for URI is 2083 characters, but for URI path, it is 2048 characters.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427

Chose not to implement unlimited URI path as per HTTP 1.1 spec for practical reasons.