- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:36:03 +0100
- To: Mark Phillips <mphill14@harris.com>
- CC: dasl list webdav <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>, WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Mark Phillips wrote: > I need to join the other list. > > I am dealing with a server side limitation. Our set up is Apache 2.2 on > Windows XP Pro for the moment. We wrote our own client and the URL limit is > 10,000,000. Probably excessive but there you go. > > In our tests, Apache reports a 403 error but that appears to be misleading. > Further testing reveals a "magic" limit where URI's between 249 and 260 > characters in length fail on the MKCOL command. > > So our supposition is the ever-popular MAX_PATH constraint. Of course, that > may not be the issue and we open to new info. > ... I guess it depends on what APR (Apache Portable Runtime) supports on Windows. It's quite possible that it doesn't take advantage of the more modern Windows APIs that do not suffer from these length restrictions. BR, Julian
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