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John-Mark Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Richard Porter wrote:
>
> > It appears that NetSurf truncates a link to 255 characters. I've
> > just received an invoice notification that contains two PayPal
> > links which well exceed 511 characters.
> >
> > I'm sure that links on web pages can be longer, but why is this
> > limitation imposed on entered URLs including those generated by a
> > mail client? Is it just arbitrary or is it an RFC?
>
> NetSurf has no hard-coded limits on URL length. There is a known
> issue with URL completion and long URLs but this is unlikely to have
> any effect in this case. You haven't said how you're entering URLs,
> so I've no idea quite what the problem might be.
>
> If you're launching the URL from another application, it could well
> be the result of some limit related to Wimp message processing. The
> maximum size of a poll block is 256 bytes, of which 20 bytes are
> reserved for various global fields; thus the maximum length of a
> string in a Wimp message is 256 - 20 = 236 bytes (or 235, if a
> terminator is required). This limit will certainly affect the ANT
> URL protocol (as, to my knowledge, nothing sends the indirect form
> of the message).
BookMaker does if appropriate. But it is unlikely that the OP went via
BM.
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Nick Roberts tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.
