On 2023-01-21 19:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Only way I could share it is as an attachment, >> its something like three pages of characters. > > I guess that's just too long then. Links (GET requests specifically) > aren't required to work if they're above 1024 characters long.
According to RFC 7230 (which sets out the requirements for URIs/URLs), section 3.1.1, It is RECOMMENDED that all HTTP senders and recipients support, at a minimum, request-line lengths of 8000 octets. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230#section-3.1.1 There were some long-standing limitations in certain browsers (glares at IE) where URLs over 2000 characters would cause problems, but most servers and user-agents should handle that just fine. And according to RFC 2119, RECOMMENDED/SHOULD definitions: SHOULD: This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119 So if lynx or links is balking at limits above 1024 bytes, perhaps that ought to be raised to at least a baseline of 8000 bytes? -tim
