Len(URL) = 312 but we get "HTTP 414 - Request - URI Too Lo..

Hi All - Thanks to you all for your responses and I'm sorry I haven't
followed up before now. Certainly what Wade says about limits was my
understanding (I'm using IIS5 and I understood I was good for 128KB on
that basis). I didn't know about MAX_PATH but surely that only relates
to that part of the URL before the first question mark ? That is it's
a limitation of the file system on which ISS is running ?

Anyway the good news is this I have resolved this issue - after
reading the various posts I decided it must be something I was doing
and sure enough it seems so. The link is generated from an ASP script
and when the link is generated the whole URL was passed through a
VBScript function 'urlencode'. My experience here makes me think that
is a bad idea and that I should only have been applying URL encode to
that part of the URL to the right of the questions mark, ie the
parameter string. Certainly when I stopped 'urlencode'ing the whole
string the problem went away.

If anyone's got any further input on this I would be glad to hear as I
don't really feel I solved it so much as 'pushed it away'.
Nevertheless it is the case that the problem has gone away.

Thanks again for your help.

regards

richard shea.


"Jerry III" <jerryiii DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<u9iZbgYtDHA.2388 DeleteThis @TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
 > IE is limited to 2048 characters in the URI, that might be your problem...
 > you should use POST method (or GET method with request body) if you're
 > sending more than few characters to the server...
 >
 > Jerry
 >
 > "Richard Shea" <richardshea DeleteThis @fastmail.fm> wrote in message
 > news:282f826a.0311262200.3666dffe@posting.google.com...
  > > Hi - I have just extended an existing URL to be 312 characters long
  > > and now IIS 5 on W2K (SP2) is giving me a 414 in response to it. The
  > > URL looks like this:
  > >
<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://192.168.10.4/ABC/ABCReportingGraphicInHTML%2Easp%3FREPSTYLE</font" target="_blank">http://192.168.10.4/ABC/ABCReportingGraphicInHTML%2Easp%3FREPSTYLE</font</a>>
  > > %3DpercentageTimeAnalysis%26REPTYPE%3Dtimebyactivity%26GRVAUTOID%3
  > > D3%26CCEAUTOID%3D%2D1%26ACTAUTOID%3D%26REAAUTOID%3D%26SROAUTOID%3D
  > > %2D1%26ISOTARGETFROMDATE%3D19990101%26ISOTARGETTODATE%3D20031231%2
  > > 6DDMMYYFROMDATE%3D01%2D01%2D1999%26DDMMYYTODATE%3D31%2D12%2D2003%2
  > > 6GENERICROLEDESC%3DFront+Line+Office%26COSTCENTREDESC%3DAll+Cost+Centres
  > >
  > > Can anyone explain why the limit is said to be 128Kb but it's blowing
  > > up on this ? I make 312 chars to be about 2.5Kb.
  > >
  > > Having read the archives I know there is a means of reducing that
  > > limit for security purposes but that techinque is not in place on this
  > > server.
  > >
  > > If anyone could provide some info I'd be grateful.
  > >
  > > regards
  > >
  > > richard shea.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: Len(URL) = 312 but we get "HTTP 414 - Request - URI Too Lo..