Long Profile Link Bug

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The discussion Long Profile Link Bug revolves around an issue where extremely long links or sentences with periods in between words can be posted, causing the player card to become untidy. JonnyGamer discovered that adding more characters to an already long website link results in an internal server error. Through experimentation, JonnyGamer found that the character limit is 256.

JonnyGamer also tested replacing characters with the longest Unicode character and found that the glitch reappears when the location field is used instead of the website field.

awesomerobot subsequently fixed the issue, truncating long URLs to prevent overflowing. memorablechickenyay suggested verifying whether the truncated URL is a valid website, but acknowledged the difficulty in implementing this.

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I know this is kind of silly, but recently it was found out that you can put these long sentences with periods in between the words and it will count as a link, and these can be very long.

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I mean it doesn’t really matter but it will make everything look a bit more tidy to just put a few periods… if it is longer that the player card. Or limit the link characters.

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Thanks for referencing the :joy:

Lol jk, when I discovered this glitch, I tried adding a few more characters to that inconceivably long website, it disallows it with an internal server error. I’ll try and find the character limit before there error :ok_hand:

Probably some power of 2

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http://the.most.fantasic.website.to.be.ever.convieved.on.the.interwebs.or.something.like.that.how.long.does.this.go.for.it.seems.to.go.on.and.on.and.on.and.on.dont.stop.believing.something.something.forgot.the.words.yeah.testing.the.character.limit.he.com

This is the max string of characters. I’ll find how many that is
Edit: It’s 256, that makes sense

I wonder what would happen if I replaced all of these characters for the longest unicode character that I used to break the layout of the “latest” hmmm :thinking:

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Okeedokes, now click on my pfp and have a good glitchy time :joy:

(I found that 256 "﷽"s just hid itself when I say that it’s my website. However, I changed it to my location, and the glitch returns!)

Well, I mean, it’s not a glitch. It’s just a thingy that needs to be truncated because it breaks the user card

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This is fixed — long URLS will now truncate instead of overflowing.

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looks good. but still, maybe check to make sure it’s actually a valid website? not sure how to do that but whatever lol

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