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

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:

> The problem is more that many implementations use static buffers of, let's say
> 1024 bytes for reading the HTTP request line. If the request line is longer
> than the buffer then the application dies or is open for security attacks.
> This was the case with a version of the NCSA server and also a version of the
> Netscape client, I believe.

The problem you are probably refering to, only occured with
really long hostnames.  The size of the URL (hostname excluded) is
theoretically infinate.

:lou
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