Re: URL length limit

2007-09-15 Thread Nick Roberts
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ch

Re: URL length limit

2007-09-15 Thread David J. Ruck
On 15 Sep 2007 John-Mark Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're launching the URL from another application, it could well be > the result of some limit related to Wimp message processing. [snip] > This limit will certainly affect the ANT URL protocol (as, to my > knowledge, nothing sends the

Re: URL length limit

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Porter
On 15 Sep 2007 John-Mark Bell 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

Re: URL length limit

2007-09-14 Thread John-Mark Bell
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 o

URL length limit

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Porter
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