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 Is the page in the subject line the one that you need???<g>
Or perhaps it's this one...<vbg>
http://www.mapblast.com/mblast/dDir.mb?CMD=PATH&IC=39.426665:-84.212695:621:Lebanon,+OH:38.994833:-76.885732:620:Greenbelt,+MD&;
IC=39.426665:-84.212695:621:Lebanon,+OH&DIC=38.994833:-76.885732:620:Greenbelt+MD&OGAD3=Lebanon+OH&DGAD3=Greenb&DU=MI&showman=1

On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 02:08:51 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

> I seem to recall, a ways back in time, that someone mentioned Arachne
> limits the length of the URL string it will send.  And someone else said
> something could/would/couldn't be done about that.

> I'm faced with the fact that I cannot use some of the web sites
> otherwise usable [despite javascript] because of the length of the code
> string that needs to be sent.

> For instance, I'm trying to map my trip from Ohio to Maryland.  It's
> about 30-35 twists, turns, junctions, whatever depending upon the
> mapping service I use.  But I'm having poor results [and none in one
> case] because a very precise string has to be sent to the server
> database to create the route and then match up the maps to each change.

> This one is 280 characters long.  Arachne apparently isn't feeding the
> whole thing to the server although it's complete in the html code.

> Note:  It's all one line in the html code, but I don't know what the
> arachne editor or Insight would do if I left it that way.

> <a href="http://www.mapblast.com/mblast/dDir.mb?CMD=PATH&IC=39.426665:
> -84.212695:621:Lebanon%2c+OH:38.994833:-76.885732:620:Greenbelt%2c+MD
> &OIC=39.426665:-84.212695:621:Lebanon%2c+OH&DIC=38.994833:-76.885732:
> 620:Greenbelt%2c+MD&OGAD3=Lebanon%2c+OH&DGAD3=Greenb&DU=MI&showman=1">
> Show Step by Step Maps</a>

> Without that data the site simply downloads the original page again.
> :<

> Of course, all my dreams of a finished version of Arachne may be wasted
> if Michael gets drafted.

> l.d.
> -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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