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

[Sandro Magi]

I doubt this restriction is respected much in practice. URLs at shopping
sites are regularly over 255 characters.

Sandro

Bill Frantz wrote:
> 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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