Re: Boost.URL Proposal max_size

From: Rainer Deyke (rdeyke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-03-25 07:17:11

On 24.03.22 17:11, Alan de Freitas via Boost wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> We're deciding on the max size for URLs in our Boost.URL proposal. The spec
> doesn't suggest a limit but the reasonable trade-off
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url-in-different-browsers>
> is:
> 
> - 2^16 chars: More than all browsers, servers, and search engines support

That's not true.  Both Firefox and Chromium support multi-megabyte 
embedded images using the data URI scheme.

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Rainer Deyke (rainerd_at_[hidden])