Our installation of IIS 5 ignores URLs that are too long. One of my
coworkers was trying to push a multithousand character string (contents of
an email) via the URL and got confused when it acted like the request never
got made. For a real good developer, they got some real blind spots. :-)
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:05 PM
: To: CF-Talk
: Subject: Re: SOT: URL length
:
:
: FYI, The HTTP RFC at the W3C says both clients and servers should
: be able to
: handle URL's of "unbounded length".
:
: Reality is totally different, and I've never run into a URL length
: issue, but I remember hearing somewhere that very old versions of some
: browsers would crash on urls that were too long.
: --
: jon
: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
: Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 2:56:10 PM, you wrote:
:
: SID> http by the browser, and the web server. You can of course
: check out the RFC's for the http protocol, although I can't tell
: you where to find them or how much various browsers and webservers
: SID> stick to that standard in this repsect.
:
: SID> If you're concerned about the length of the url I'd
: recommend checking into storing some of that data in the session
: or another shared scope.
:
:
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