Comments on: HTTP Redirect buffer overflow http://blog.pahudson.net/archives/286 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erik Brooks http://blog.pahudson.net/archives/286/comment-page-1#comment-143 Erik Brooks Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:36:18 +0000 http://blog.pahudson.net/?p=286#comment-143 If I recall there was a limit in a major browser (IE6 I think, might have been 5.5 or Netscape/FF). That it only handled 2048-character URLs, so a 2048 character buffer made sense back in the R5 days. But I agree, if the general HTTP handles 4k then the redirects should honor that also. If I recall there was a limit in a major browser (IE6 I think, might have been 5.5 or Netscape/FF). That it only handled 2048-character URLs, so a 2048 character buffer made sense back in the R5 days.

But I agree, if the general HTTP handles 4k then the redirects should honor that also.

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