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While this is great for being able to send anyone a URL to a stateful page without needing a backend database, keep in mind browsers have URL length limits and
by eatonphil 4y ago
While this is great for being able to send anyone a URL to a stateful page without needing a backend database, keep in mind browsers have URL length limits and they vary by browser. Compressing as mentioned in the article can help but still you want to know when you're going to go over and figure out a plan for dealing with that.
- vbezhenar 4y agoChrome limits URLs to a maximum length of 2MB It's more likely that messaging app will have stricter limit than Chrome (and other browsers at this point do not matter). Though I'd suggest to use some kind of server storage if you need to transfer more than few kilobytes of data.
- eatonphil 4y agoGreat point too. At least you can count on being able to send over email. But yeah, the length will get long and even if the browser can handle it do you really want to be passing around that much text at once? I'm also curious what various OS clipboard size limits are.