TIL: The limit of 255 characters in any distinct part of an URL seems to be purely fictional. I've always assumed it was a very clear cut standard, but now I ca

TIL: The limit of 255 characters in any distinct part of an URL seems to be purely fictional. I've always assumed it was a very clear cut standard, but now I can't find it neither in the RFC [0,1] nor the standard [2] So, as we're down to opinion here, my personal pet peeve is: keep 'em short. [0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986 [2] https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ https://url.spec.whatwg.org/