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KP in VA [PersonRank 1]

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
17 years ago7,167 views

I just tried to save this website to my del.icio.us bookmarks and received the oddest error message. One I hadn't seen before:

Sorry, Request-URI Too Large.
The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
request failed: URI too long

Now, I have saved some bookmarks with much longer URLs than: www.thefrock.com/front.html, so at first I thought maybe del.icio.us was down. Looking closer I found:

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[snip] </TITLE>

Holy spamtastic! I haven't seen page title spam like this before, but I bet you have. Can anyone beat it?

[Edit – Removed some of the periods/fullstops/dots to make it wrap – Tony]

KP in VA [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Dang, sorry about that. I would have hit a zillion carriage returns had I known it was going to get crazy here...

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

At Google Blogoscoped's software, I restrict the titles to only some characters on multiple-posts-per-page pages (I don't want to have overlong titles, there's no use for visitors and it might be considered spammy by search engines).

KP in VA [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

I was wondering if the search engines would knock a site for that. I had never seen anything like that before...

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