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Re: Long URIs

From: Paul Gearon <gearon@ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:22:19 -0500
Message-ID: <a25ac1f0904171422j5aa15fcdo99e7acda1cdf6120@mail.gmail.com>
To: Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com>
Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just came across this
>
> Are Long URLs wasting bandwith?
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/27/2017250&from=rss

It's been a few years since I went as far down the protocol stack as
TCP/IP, but don't TCP packets have a minimum size? I would have
thought that most HTTP requests would fit into a single packet, with
no difference to the packet size. Or is my memory faulty here?

Regards,
Paul
Received on Friday, 17 April 2009 21:23:01 GMT

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