Request-URI Too Large

[Steve Slevinski]

Hi Cherie,

TinyURL does work well with SignText and long URLs.  It's a good thing 
to use. 

This situation was a defect caused by a work around and server 
configuration.

LIFE,
-Steve

CWren at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
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> I just used it for something recently with signwriting....  I can't 
> remember what....  must have been something different?
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> Cherie Wren
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> Hi Jonathan  & Cherie,
>
> TinyURL won't work.  The DeafVision server will still reject the 
> redirect because of the URL length.
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> The offline version of SignText 1.0 has limitations with regard to 
> size.  The length depends on the client and the server.  For the 
> client, it depends on the Operating System and browser.  For the 
> server, it depends on a max URL length defined in a configuration file 
> somewhere.
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> Sorry that I can't give you a specific answer.  I'm using GET so that 
> the offline version of SignText is possible.  SignPuddle 1.5 has 
> switched to POST so it doesn't have this problem.  
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> If you send me the link privately (and tell me where you want it), I 
> can hack it in for you.  Once it's in 1.5, the length error will go 
> away.  
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> Regards,
> -Steve
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> Cherie Wren wrote:
> try tinyURL...  its a website 
>  _http://www.geocities.com/adilbookz/Utilities/tinyurlcode.html_  that 
> takes a humungous URL and makes it tiny.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jonathan _<duncanjonathan at yahoo.ca>_ 
> <mailto:duncanjonathan at yahoo.ca>
> To: SignWriting List _<sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>_ 
> <mailto:sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:45:51 PM
> Subject: [sw-l] Request-URI Too Large
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> *Hi Steve**,*
> I tried to post a document to SignPuddle and got the following message 
> with _http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/canvas.php_? . I had 
> written it with SignText1.0 at home. So I guess I will have split it. 
>  Do you have any idea as to how long each piece can be?
> *Request-URI Too Large*
> The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
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> request failed: URI too long
>
> Jonathan
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