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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by yetanother12345 on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:53PM (#38737910)
TIL: The limit of 255 characters in any distinct part of an URL seems to be purely fictional. I've always assumed it was a very clear cut standard, but now I can't find it neither in the RFC [0,1] nor the standard [2]

So, as we're down to opinion here, my personal pet peeve is: keep 'em short.

[0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986

[2] https://url.spec.whatwg.org/

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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by johnny22 on Friday December 22, 2023 @03:38PM (#38738399)
The 255 limit would have come from distinct segments being limited by say the backing linux server rather than the web server itself
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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by mhio on Saturday December 23, 2023 @12:26AM (#38741863)
Or DNS for the hostname, which becomes 253 characters for us meatbags.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035#section-2.3.4

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