URLs can use 66 unreserved characters, or 84 total including the "reserved" characters, hoping nothing weird happens with characters like # and / on the client side.
Unofficial limits on the length of a URL range from 2000 to 65000 characters.
One could encode quite a lot of information in 65K characters of base 84.
Motivating idea was a server which could run demoscene-style small programs generating an image or movie or game encoded in a HTTP GET request. Probably redundant with the data URI scheme.
No comments :
Post a Comment