from ZServer on Linux with Netscape or KDE browser I got up to 131,111 with no prob. The next click 2x131,111 crashes both.. (KDE doesn't like rendering the lonnnnggggggg link, had to refresh the display each time) Yahoo use to give thousands of stock quotes back from their quote page, the URL had each stock symbol,another, now they limit it to 200. I ran into IE's url length limit trying that once, so someone should check IE out and report back. David, tone.. Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
i'm very happy to report that in the end good old KFM (the KDE file manager with built-in browser functionality) prevailed and when i tried again after the URL had gotten to 4137 characters i am getting:
*************************** Request-URI Too Large
The requested URI's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
request failed: URI too long
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Apache/1.3.4 Server at www.zope.org Port 80 *****************************
i hope it didn't crash anything... ;)
jens
Jens Vagelpohl
Systems Administrator Washtenaw Development Council
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Toby Dickenson Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 17:00 To: cfassnacht@ssc.wisc.edu Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Simplifying complex contexts/urls
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:09:16 -0400, you wrote:
2. There must be some limit on the length of the allowable url in the browser's display. What are the chances that an extended session of clicking around will run into that limit?
Who knows? I don't think the HTTP spec has a limit on URL length, it's probably implimentation defined.
Only 256 characters is _guaranteed_, but you seem to be able to get away with quite a bit more.
My only other data point is that Internet Explorer is unhappy after about 2000 characters. My current project is likely to be pushing this limit, so I would be interested if anyone has seen anything lower. http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/urllen contains a quick test.
Thanks,
Toby Dickenson