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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by tgv on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:10PM (#38736814)
OTOH, they both are part of the message, the url having a more wasteful encoding. So it wouldn't matter that much, unless Vercel has a reason to store the URL in memory?
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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by crazygringo on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:11PM (#38736830)
No, because the URL is not the message, it's the address. Per the acronym, it's the locator only. It's not for data.

URL's get stored in logs, analytics, and so forth, where they're expected to be short.

Payloads don't. So you put the payload part in the payload, not the address.

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