Re: App-specific URLs and the pasteboard. Need help.

FROM : glenn andreas
DATE : Tue Jan 22 23:46:54 2008

On Jan 22, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Duncan Champney wrote:
> However, when I paste the URL into TextEdit or Mail, it gets 
> truncated at slightly less than 1000 characters. (The exact count 
> seems to vary by a few bytes, but seems to be around 988 to 992 
> characters for the actual URL text.)


According to RFC 2822 (Internet Message Format):
There are two limits that this standard places on the number of 
characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 
characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the 
CRLF.



So since a URL needs to be a single line, it will need to observe 
these limits...  There are a few other limitations on the parts of a 
URLas well - for example, when embedded in a HTML <A> anchor: 1024 
characters in a single attribute value literal, 2100 total sum of all 
lengths of all attribute value specifications and a similar limit of 
2100 for the overall length of the tag.



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