someone i was hosting decided that it was cool to use *sentences* for file and directory names on his windows-created web-site. These included untold special characters and spaces. The resulting URL/requests were huge. I've since educated him, but that's not always possible.
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ben Buxton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Peter Vogel wrote: > > > > > Roughly how many byes of data would I expect to receive for each http > > > request to my server? > > > > How long is the path in the URL? The referrers address? > > > > I've seen URL's as long as 900 bytes or so. Actually, I think I saw one > > once that was around 1500 bytes - huge referrer address in front of a > > reasonably long URL. > > Not forgetting that http POST requests can be incredibly long - many > megabytes. > > There is no real maximum size for a request though...but if you > only are taking GET requests, you can be pretty sure of dazzas > advice. > > -- > Ben Buxton - Random Network Person > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
