Older browsers only support URLS 255 characters or less. We found IE, up to 5.0 had this limit. IE 5.5 or better supports longer URL's.
Not sure about nutscrape and opera though, but I recon the same constraint applies... I don't think it's IIS 5 that ignores the url's... We require on our internal apps that IE5.5 or better be used. That's one of the reasons we did that. I can list others, but I don't need to get into another browser debate :-) -----Original Message----- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: URL length Our installation of IIS 5 ignores URLs that are too long. One of my coworkers was trying to push a multithousand character string (contents of an email) via the URL and got confused when it acted like the request never got made. For a real good developer, they got some real blind spots. :-) -- Ben Doom Programmer & General Lackey Moonbow Software, Inc : -----Original Message----- : From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:05 PM : To: CF-Talk : Subject: Re: SOT: URL length : : : FYI, The HTTP RFC at the W3C says both clients and servers should : be able to : handle URL's of "unbounded length". : : Reality is totally different, and I've never run into a URL length : issue, but I remember hearing somewhere that very old versions of some : browsers would crash on urls that were too long. : -- : jon : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 2:56:10 PM, you wrote: : : SID> http by the browser, and the web server. You can of course : check out the RFC's for the http protocol, although I can't tell : you where to find them or how much various browsers and webservers : SID> stick to that standard in this repsect. : : SID> If you're concerned about the length of the url I'd : recommend checking into storing some of that data in the session : or another shared scope. : : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
