[cap-talk] do caps-in-URLs work in practice? (was: Disabling clipboard access in Internet Explorer)

[Bill Frantz]

alan.karp at hp.com (Karp, Alan H) on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 wrote:

>Zooko wrote:
>>
>> Too bad!  Tahoe's caps are too long to print in a footer.
>>
>Which provides the desired security.

However, from RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1):

      Note: Servers ought to be cautious about depending on URI lengths
      above 255 bytes, because some older client or proxy
      implementations might not properly support these lengths.

Cheers - Bill

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