257017 - LONG URLs no longer supported. Will accept 2048, but no longer

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Wheeler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
The following pages says that the URL length is essentially unlimited.  

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/aboutdata.html

EXHIBITED BEHAVIOR
On Mozilla 1.5b (don't know about earlier or later builds), the super duper
ultra long URLs work.  More recent browsers including Mozilla 1.7.2 and firefox
0.9.1, 0.9.2 will only accept URLs upto 2048.  Longer URLs are truncated before
they are sent to the web server.  

USELESS DETAILS
As you might guess from the demonstration URL, I'm sending MySQL queries.  It
would be better to use the GET method instead of POST.  But I'm using the XAMPP
package, which basically has what I need.  This is the first time I've worked
with PHP, MySQL, or HTML to any degree.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to load a page with a URL longer than 2048
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL:
http://192.168.1.113/sql.php?lang=en-iso-8859-1&server=1&db=MicroVu_PNs&table=PNs&pos=0&session_max_rows=30&disp_direction=horizontal&repeat_cells=100&dontlimitchars=0&sql_query=SELECT++%60Icitem01.adduser%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.adddate%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.item%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.itmdesc%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.vpartno%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.vendno%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.lastcst%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.rating%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.lrecdte%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.lead%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.ordmin%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.ordincr%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.adduser%60+%2C++%60Icsup101.adddate%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.plinid%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.punmsid%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.stkumid%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.avgcost%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.stdcost%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.lstcost%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.decnum%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.type%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.comcode%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.history%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.itmclass%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.code%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.barcode%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.UPCcode%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.purextr%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.makeitr%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.suplier%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.stkcode%60+%2C++%60Icitem01.phantom%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.loctid%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.icacct%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.iclacct%60+%2C++%60Iciloc.lsupplr%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.orderpt%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.ordqty%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.ptdusqt%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.ptdslqt%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.ytdslqt%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.ytdusqt%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lsoaloc%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lwoaloc%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lonhand%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lonordr%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lonwkor%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lsale%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lrecv%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lordr%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.lpcnt%60+%2C++%60Iciloc01.suplead%60+%0AFROM++%60MicroVu_PNs%60.%60PNs%60+%0AWHERE++%60Icitem01.adduser%60+%0ALIKE++%27%25811260%25%27+OR++%60Icitem01.adddate%60+%0ALIKE++%27%25811260%25%27+OR++%60Icitem01.item%60+%0ALIKE++%27%25811260%25%27+OR++%60Icitem01.itmdesc%60+%0ALIKE++%27%25811260%25%27+OR++%60Icsup101.vpartno%60+%0ALIKE++%27%25811260%25%27+OR++%60Icsup101.vendno%60+%0ALIKE++%27%25811260%25%27+OR++%60Icsup101.lastcst%60+%0ALIKE++%27%258

The following error was encountered:

    * Invalid URL 

Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems:

    * Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be `http://'' or similar)
    * Missing hostname
    * Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
    * Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed 

Expected Results:  
Loading the page.

This bug seems to a more general form of some other bugs.  For instance:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56192

Is this a major feature?  I'm not sure.  It sure feels like one to me...

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

see Bug 245636 too

Comment 2

[Dan Wheeler]

This is still the case in firefox 0.93.

Comment 3

[Dan Wheeler]

(In reply to comment #1)
> see Bug 245636 too

Bug 245636 seems to be a problem with someone's webserver more than with Mozilla.

Comment 4

[Dan Wheeler]

This is working now.  I'm not sure why.  We were having some problems with there
being two master browsers.  The page that I was trying to view was on a linux
box that was the second master browser.  After I turned off the master browsing
for the linux box I notice that this started to work.  This doesn't seem
reasonable to me.  There ought to be something else that caused this, but there
being two master browsers is my best guess.