Re: [Lynx-dev] urls longer than 1024 characters

[Karen Lewellen]

Since my situation started the question, how might I send a sample for 
testing?
can the list take attachments?
Kare



On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Would it be possible for lynx to count the characters in an url and if the
> url is longer than 1024 characters offer to send the long url to an url
> shortening service and then catch the shortened url the service sent back
> and then open that shortened url instead?
> If lynx gets one of these shortened urls, will the url expansion on the
> other end cause lynx to error out or will the shortened url actually
> bypass the 1024 character limit on urls?
> I don't know that the internet has an actual limit on url length either.
>
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> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
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> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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