[Raqbit]

Middle boxes can arbitrarily limit the request URL size in certain cases.

[rcme]

Sure, but in the times of encrypted traffic, the only middle boxes capable of limiting the query should be ones explicitly added by the service owner.

[wongarsu]

In an enterprise setting you can just roll out your own root certificate to every machine's trust store, and have your middle box MitM all traffic with the help of that.