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Key: SAK-11816
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: Sam Ottenhoff
Votes: 4
Watchers: 5
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Resources does not accept URLs greater than 255 characters

Created: 04-Oct-2007 16:00   Updated: 25-Jan-2010 04:57
Component/s: Resources
Affects Version/s: 2.5.0, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.6.0
Fix Version/s: None

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Environment: qa1-us
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Resources produces an error when attempting to "Add Web Links (URL)" that are longer than 255 characters. 255 characters is an arbitrary limit for URLs. Internet Explorer accepts URLs up to 2083 characters, Firefox accepts URLs greater than 64k chars, Apache can serve URLs up to 4000 chars. More about URL length can be found here

  http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html

We have had a couple of instructors report receiving the "name .... is too long" error when pasting in some ungainly dynamic URLs. I think a 2083 (IE) or 4000 (Apache) character limit would be reasonable in Sakai.



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John Leasia added a comment - 15-Oct-2007 10:51
Perhaps to review as the Resources work for 2.6 and beyond is considered.

Harriet Truscott added a comment - 03-Jan-2008 10:16
This seems like a perfectly sensible request - lets expand the size limit to something that you think is reasonable (or does this actually cause problems with the db?)

David Horwitz added a comment - 25-Jan-2010 04:57
MAINTANCE TEAM: Unassigned so these get reviewed by the Maintance Team