Hi developers, I thought I'd write a post to share with you something I recently observed: links with big URL's (more than 500 characters) don't work properly on activity stream updates, scraps, e-mails, or anywhere general. Using huge URLs is not a good practice in general, since certain browsers have undocumented limits on URL handling, but our limit is lower than most browsers, to play it safe.
We also use URL rewriting sometimes to route things through our cache to decrease latency, so that may consume as much as 160 characters from the URL. Moral of the story: don't use huge URLs. Particularly, since our limit is 512, and up to 160 can be used up in rewriting, and leaving some space for escaping special characters on the rewrite, I'd say the safe limit would be around 200. And that's still a pretty long URL: http://this.is.an.example.url.with.200.chars/as.you.can.see.i.can.write.a.lot.of.stuff/and&it&will&still&fit/wow/its/only/130/characters/this/far/im/getting/tired/of/typing/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
