On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:51:18PM +0000, Laurent wrote:
> I'm trying to retrieve all the templates from a page as XML strings so
> that I can retrieve their parameters and values. For that I'm using
> the "expandtemplates" action with "generatexml" set to true. It works
> well for very small articles however not for large ones (above approx.
> 2000 characters). In this cases, the API fails because the query
> string is too big (Error ERR_TOO_BIG).

If you're using GET, try POST instead.

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