- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:59:04 +1000
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Somewhat related, see <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-09#section-4.1.2>, last paragraph. Cheers, On 08/04/2010, at 8:06 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: > Hi folks > > Some topics seem peculiarly ill-suited for Web searches - hence this > mail. I am looking for data on typical lengths of URIs, in particular > as they're used in the public Web. Breakdown by scheme would be nice, > but anything would be a start. > > Context for this enquiry is an investigation into the use of > mechanisms like QR Codes and also audio encodings (eg. > http://github.com/diva/digital-voices/ ) as a way of passing URIs > around, eg. to a smartphone from a media centre. I'd like to know > what's out there, what's feasible to encode using these techniques, > and as well as what the official limits are. In > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 I don't see much about URI length > except in the reg-name portion. > > So - what are the official limits? what are the practical limits (eg. > imposed by common implementations)? Can we say that 99.9% of URIs in > the public Web are shorter than ...X chars? > > Ideally barcode and audio encodings wouldn't impose arbitrary limits; > however it would be good to document what's folk can expect to > encounter, if only for sensible testing of error correction, reader > accuracy etc. > > Thanks for any pointers, > > Dan > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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