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Re:A URL Lengthener by wccrawford on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:36PM (#27158048)
The URL can be up to 1024 characters. The browser must support at least 1024 character URLs.

They're 2 sides of the same coin, but MS didn't actually rephrase the sentence properly. Their version would have every URL have at least 1024 characters in it. Any less than that, and the browser should reject the URL as invalid.

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Re:A URL Lengthener by lurkerasdfh8 on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:53PM (#27158990)
> Any less than that, and the browser should reject the URL as invalid.

lol. that would have been awesome. domain squatters would be running for the 1000 character names while crying about all the money they paid for three letters one :)

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Re:A URL Lengthener by jfrunyon on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:54PM (#27158292)
It's a lot more likely that the commenter remembering something he read 28(!) years later didn't rephrase it properly.
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