Re: don't use POST for big GET [was: Dictionaries in HTML ]

Ned said:
> There are plenty of ways to approach this that do not require putting a hard
> upper limit on URL size. For example, you could say that "all implementations
> are required to support URLs at least 255 characters long and implementations
> are encouraged to support URLs of as long a length as is feasible".

You could also say that servers may not silently truncate or ignore
URLs that are beyond their implementation limit; instead they must
return a specific error (e.g. "URL too long").  This keeps
implementations from taking the lazy way out and still being able to
claim compliance with the spec.