the great thing about standards is there are so many to ignore.

- erik

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| 
| > Paul Lalonde wrote:
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| >> You absolutely need 8k URLS - then you can encode your data, stick it  
| >> in the URL, and pass it to tinyURL.com for remote storage.
| > 
| > you know, I can't tell if you're joking. Thats' how bad it's gotten on 
| > the net :)
| > 
| > ron
| 
| I wish this was a joke:
| 
| http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2397.html
| http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/aboutdata.html
| 
| And trust me, this is not even one of the worst parts of the web this days.
| 
| But that is not what I was referring to, fortunately data: urls are not
| too common yet (but their popularity has been growing lately.)
| 
| We had problems with URLs >200 bytes long or so, I don't remember the
| details, they are probably in the logs of #acme as fgb and me
| investigated it some weeks ago.  Now that I think about it, it
| certainly seems very strange how writes were split so early, I'm not
| sure if we checked the exact iounit value, but it certainly seemed
| strangely low to me.
| 
| uriel

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