a little bit ago there were alot of people complaining about IE's bugs on
cirtain pages. i think its a bug. i tihnk, dont quote me on this though, a
link can be the same length as an integer. an integer can be any length, but
in programming (like C/C++) its limited to 33,000 or threre abouts, from
there you have to use floating point numbers.
but.... what im slowlying getting at, is maybe IE5.5 has a problem with
string length or how much space it puts aside for variables? not sure. maybe
increase the cache size if you can. maybe, by opening a new window, it
allocates a new bit of space for the link (variable or whatever) to sit in.
but it wont work with the orginal window because its already got a load of
stuff on there..... i dont know. just guessing.

 Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Bunn [mailto:norman.bunn(at)craftedsolutions.com]
Sent: 30 August 2000 14:28
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: Link Length problem under IE5.5?


I have a link on a page that is dynamically populated from a database.  The
link launches a perl program that interprets the passed data from the link.
The link can get quite long and recently stopped working for some users with
a large amount of passed data; they click on the link and nothing happens.
Strangely enough, if you right-click on the link and choose "open in new
window", it works fine.

I have been able to replicate the problem on a machine running IE5.5 and NT.
However, it does not occur under IE5 (Win98), NS4.6 (Win98), NS6PR2 (win98),
NS4.72 (NT),  NS6PR1 (NT).  Methinks I have an IE5.5 bug.

Any ideas?

Norman

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