[ILUG] unique buglet in netscape, url truncation

[Caolan McNamara]

On 11-Jun-99 Lars Hecking wrote:
>Caolan McNamara writes:
>> *sigh* there i was trying to look at my favourite welsh town's
>> webite, only netscape insisted on truncating the url, I had to drop
>> the www. to get netscape to open the site.
>>  
>> url is
>> 
>> http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/
>> 
>> Its real.
>
> Works fine here on Solaris, netrape 4.6.

odd, 
www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
fails with 4.6 on linux. and fails at www.whatever.c 
which is 64 chars, which looks like an internal buffer of 64 chars
+ one null.

C.


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