[Interest] Maximum URL length
Viktor Engelmann
viktor.engelmann at qt.io
Thu Mar 15 10:37:07 CET 2018
Chromium (and thus also WebEngine) has a limit of 2 MiB, because the
URLs are sometimes copied in a blocking way, which causes instability
when the limit is larger.
see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=69227
On 15.03.2018 01:35, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:42:03 PDT Tom Isaacson via Interest wrote:
>> Is there a maxiumum URL length, either in QUrl or Qt WebEngine? There
>> doesn’t seem to be a standard for maximum URL length, it's implementation
>> specific.
> Yes, the limit in QUrl is the QString limit, which is 2GB, or 1 billion
> characters.
>
> The host field has the strictest validation and must comply with STD3, so each
> dot-separated label must be at most 64-characters in length. All other fields
> only need to be syntactically correct.
>
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