Link’s href is cut off after 500 characters

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I have a big 1400 character long link here.

If I inspect the document, it’s saved OK in Discourse.
If I right click copy HREF then open new tab paste it and Enter it works OK too.

But if I click it, the HREF URL will get trimmed after 500 characters and I will see an error page…

It must has to do with the click tracker.

※ I’m on Windows, I have tested Opera 12, Firefox, Chromium, IE11.

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You could have picked a better time no?

MB will remain in read-only mode for another 8-12 hours while the team gets some rest. Sorry!

The server is temporarily in read-only mode for database maintenance.

3

I suggest using a link shortener like http://goo.gl if you need to post URLs that large.

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Sorry I didn“t have any other long URL handy than the one where I spotted the bug on…

  1. Right click copy the long link, paste in a notepad, check the length → 1400 characters.
  2. Click the long link, then whatever the page display, copy the URL from the address bar and paste it in the same notepad and check its length → 500 characters.
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I think that says it all :arrow_down: :wink:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/topic_link.rb#L10-L12

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Thanks

I see what you mean.

https://musicbrainz.org/search/edits?negation=0&combinator=or&conditions.3.field=id&conditions.3.operator=%3D&conditions.3.args.0=38846344&conditions.4.field=id&conditions.4.operator=%3D&conditions.4.args.0=38846371&conditions.5.field=id&conditions.5.operator=%3D&conditions.5.args.0=38846374&conditions.6.field=id&conditions.6.operator=%3D&conditions.6.args.0=38846554&conditions.7.field=id&conditions.7.operator=%3D&conditions.7.args.0=38843739&conditions.8.field=id&conditions.8.operator=%3D&conditions.8.args.0=38846557&conditions.9.field=id&conditions.9.operator=%3D&conditions.9.args.0=38846753&conditions.10.field=id&conditions.10.operator=%3D&conditions.10.args.0=38846877&conditions.11.field=id&conditions.11.operator=%3D&conditions.11.args.0=38846956&conditions.12.field=id&conditions.12.operator=%3D&conditions.12.args.0=38847027&conditions.13.field=id&conditions.13.operator=%3D&conditions.13.args.0=38847058&conditions.14.field=id&conditions.14.operator=%3D&conditions.14.args.0=38847098&conditions.15.field=id&conditions.15.operator=%3D&conditions.15.args.0=38847118&conditions.16.field=id&conditions.16.operator=%3D&conditions.16.args.0=38847136&conditions.17.field=id&conditions.17.operator=%3D&conditions.17.args.0=38847141&conditions.18.field=id&conditions.18.operator=%3D&conditions.18.args.0=38847192&conditions.19.field=id&conditions.19.operator=%3D&conditions.19.args.0=38847259

https://musicbrainz.org/search/edits?negation=0&combinator=or&conditions.3.field=id&conditions.3.operator=%3D&conditions.3.args.0=38846344&conditions.4.field=id&conditions.4.operator=%3D&conditions.4.args.0=38846371&conditions.5.field=id&conditions.5.operator=%3D&conditions.5.args.0=38846374&conditions.6.field=id&conditions.6.operator=%3D&conditions.6.args.0=38846554&conditions.7.field=id&conditions.7.operator=%3D&conditions.7.args.0=38843739&conditions.8.field=id&conditions.8.operator=%3D&condi

compared to

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Maybe there is no URL ID in the DB and the URL itself acts as the key, thus the size limit…

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We just don’t support long URLs.

If you want to use URLs with more than 500 characters, then use a URL shortener like @codinghorror suggested.

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