URL Length

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I have an interesting situation.

I am supporting an app that opens a page via a very long URL (1723
characters).

In IE 6, it takes 3 minutes or more to open, in Netscape it opens
within five seconds.

Interestingly, if I reduce the length of the URL to 1338 characters,
IE open the page in five seconds, but if I increase the length of the
URL by one character (1339), it foes back to taking three minutes to
open.

Has anyone else witnessed this behaviour? Does anyone have any
suggestions (Other than re-writing the app to not use such a long
URL).

Thanks!

John W.
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Re: URL Length by >

>
Fri May 14 08:15:32 CDT 2004

"John Wraase" <jkwraase@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e5cce561.0405130809.2fb906ce@posting.google.com...
> I am supporting an app that opens a page via a very long URL (1723
> characters).
>
> In IE 6, it takes 3 minutes or more to open, in Netscape it opens
> within five seconds.
>
> Interestingly, if I reduce the length of the URL to 1338 characters,
> IE open the page in five seconds, but if I increase the length of the
> URL by one character (1339), it foes back to taking three minutes to
> open.

Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length of
2,083 characters, with a maximum path length of 2,048 characters
(http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q208/4/27.ASP). There is no
prescribed limit or behavior to which browser makers must comply, so thus the
behaviour you are observing.

There *is* a defined limit on URL length within emails of 998 characters
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html ), so it would probably be wise to
stay below that.


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Re: URL Length by jkwraase

jkwraase
Mon May 17 14:09:37 CDT 2004

"<>" <loopback@44.255.255.255> wrote in message news:<UD3pc.52397$BG1.19161@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> "John Wraase" <jkwraase@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:e5cce561.0405130809.2fb906ce@posting.google.com...
> > I am supporting an app that opens a page via a very long URL (1723
> > characters).
> >
> > In IE 6, it takes 3 minutes or more to open, in Netscape it opens
> > within five seconds.
> >
> > Interestingly, if I reduce the length of the URL to 1338 characters,
> > IE open the page in five seconds, but if I increase the length of the
> > URL by one character (1339), it foes back to taking three minutes to
> > open.
>
> Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length of
> 2,083 characters, with a maximum path length of 2,048 characters
> (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q208/4/27.ASP). There is no
> prescribed limit or behavior to which browser makers must comply, so thus the
> behaviour you are observing.
>
> There *is* a defined limit on URL length within emails of 998 characters
> (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html ), so it would probably be wise to
> stay below that.


Thank You.

I had read that kb article, but it seemed that I was still under the
2048 limit.

Now, reading your response, I realize that I didn't consider the path.
Does the path mean the
"http://www.aaaaa.com/Display.cfm/?para1&para2&para3" or the actual
location of the files on the HTTP or CF server?

Thanks for yor response. I am really stumped on this one.
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