Length of Identity URL

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Tue May 24 17:56:59 PDT 2005


On Tue, 24 May 2005, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

>
> On May 24, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> > Let's go with:
> >
> > -- identity URL:  255 max
> > -- identity server URL:  2047 max, after consumer-added arguments
> > -- return_to URL:  2047 max, after identity-server added arguments
> >
> > Cool?
>
> MSIE only supports 2083 character URLs (don't know about Safari and
> Mozilla-ish browsers), so 2047 should be fine.  255 for the identity
> URL is good.
>
> If we are making limits we should probably make some limit on how
> much data each part of the transaction can tag on...  (how long the
> return_to url can be etc)

1k for original, and 1k of tagged on data?  *shrug*

1k's pretty big for a URL.

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