Re: new issue: URI length limitations

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:05:02 +0200, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> Clients, however, are not so well-covered, and that's where a lot of the  
> pain I see comes from; some mainstream browsers limit URIs to 1k or  
> less, IIRC, and in some cases they require far smaller URIs. Mobile  
> browsers are particularly painful to work with, some limiting URIs to  
> 256 bytes or less.

Note that a lot of clients also allow way longer URIs than that. This was  
introduced for data: URIs.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Friday, 12 October 2007 08:41:22 UTC