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Created: Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 11:50 am EST
Last updated: Friday, February 18, 2005 at 12:57 am ESTUnclean numbers really bother me

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[quote]Posted: Friday, February 18, 2005 at 12:57 am EST Ahh the old 12 weiners to the 8 buns problem. good idea quade

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[quote]Posted: Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 11:50 am EST OK, so I was helping a client find out why his web form wasn't working if you submitted too much stuff at once. Long story short, the form was using the GET method, which puts all the form elements in the URL. Internet Explorer has a limit of 2,038 characters that can be passed through the URL (other browsers have no limitation, which is in accordance with the specs for URLs). OK, I can live with the fact that IE limits things arbitrarily -- they limit <textarea> boxes to 32,768 characters*, and shit like that. The thing that really bugs the piss out of me is why the fuck 2,038? It makes no sense. Why not 2,000, or 2,048 (which is an even 2K)? why not 60,000 like older Netscape browsers? There's no logical pattern to it. The only thing that I could even think could be the reason is that 2038 is the year that Unix is supposed to stop working (date bug), so they figured IE should too. WTF! * You can type more than 32K characters in a textarea box, but if you submit a POST form, it truncates everything after the 32K mark. An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthx bai. --Genesis 1:31