Has anyone found a way to get around Internet Explorer's 2083 character URL length limitation in GNATSWeb? (besides not using IE -- some of my users would revolt if I took that option away). 2083 seems like a lot, but when doing Advanced Queries the column names and such add up very quickly! Tim Buck * Information Technology Manager * Recognition Research, Inc. PHONE +1 540 961-6500 * FAX +1 540 961-3568 * EMAIL tbuck@rrinc.com No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People -- P. T. Barnum _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 538 bytes --] Tim Buck wrote: > Has anyone found a way to get around Internet Explorer's 2083 > character URL length limitation in GNATSWeb? (besides not using IE -- > some of my users would revolt if I took that option away). > > 2083 seems like a lot, but when doing Advanced Queries the column > names and such add up very quickly! Ouch. Perhaps cookies or server-side sessions could be used for this. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ [-- Attachment #1.2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 140 bytes --] _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
Hello Tim, It can be solved by removing empty parameters from the query url. This was done partially and inconsistently. Just follow these steps to change your gnatsweb.pl. 1) Add this function: sub strip_empty_params { my ($url) = @_; $url =~ s/(\w|-)+=;//g; return $url; } 2) Change every occurence of "$q->self_url()" with "strip_empty_params($q->self_url())" exception in: my ($query_string) = strip_empty_params($q->self_url() =~ m/^[^?]*\?(.*)$/); remove eventual lines like "$query_string =~ s/(\w|-)+=;//g;" following the changed line 3) idem with this line in sub store_query: my $query_string = $q->query_string(); Regards -- Alwin -----Original Message----- From: Tim Buck [mailto:tbuck@rrinc.com] Sent: mercredi, 26. janvier 2005 22:44 To: help-gnats@gnu.org Subject: [GNATSWeb] URL length limitation in IE Has anyone found a way to get around Internet Explorer's 2083 character URL length limitation in GNATSWeb? (besides not using IE -- some of my users would revolt if I took that option away). 2083 seems like a lot, but when doing Advanced Queries the column names and such add up very quickly! Tim Buck * Information Technology Manager * Recognition Research, Inc. PHONE +1 540 961-6500 * FAX +1 540 961-3568 * EMAIL tbuck@rrinc.com No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People -- P. T. Barnum _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Dieperink Alwin wrote: > Hello Tim, > > It can be solved by removing empty parameters from the query url. This > was > done partially and inconsistently. Just follow these steps to change > your > gnatsweb.pl. > The URLs in question were built by hand, and have no empty parameters. They are over 2K without empty params. So your solution won't help in this case (though it's a good idea in general!) Tim Buck * Information Technology Manager * Recognition Research, Inc. PHONE +1 540 961-6500 * FAX +1 540 961-3568 * EMAIL tbuck@rrinc.com In its default setup, Windows XP on the Internet amounts to a car parked in a bad part of town, with the doors unlocked, the key in the ignition, and a Post-It note on the dashboard saying, "Please don't steal me." -- Rob Pegoraro _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
Alwin I have noticed that gnatsweb.pl is more restrictive than GNATS in regards to field names. The 4.0 gnatsweb.pl uses "\w" which is alphanumeric plus the underline. This created problems with saving queries when fields have a dash in the name. Below I see that you have added the dash. GNATS allows just about any character except space, equals, semicolon, colon and greater than ( " =;:>" ). Actually I think that GNATS allows even some of these characters. Should GNATS be restricted to "(\w|-)" or some restricted set or should gnatsweb be enhanced to support additional characters ([^ =;:>])? Stuart -----Original Message----- From: help-gnats-bounces+stuart_stevens=sierralogic.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnats-bounces+stuart_stevens=sierralogic.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Dieperink Alwin Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:12 AM To: 'Tim Buck' Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org Subject: RE: [GNATSWeb] URL length limitation in IE Hello Tim, It can be solved by removing empty parameters from the query url. This was done partially and inconsistently. Just follow these steps to change your gnatsweb.pl. 1) Add this function: sub strip_empty_params { my ($url) = @_; $url =~ s/(\w|-)+=;//g; return $url; } 2) Change every occurence of "$q->self_url()" with "strip_empty_params($q->self_url())" exception in: my ($query_string) = strip_empty_params($q->self_url() =~ m/^[^?]*\?(.*)$/); remove eventual lines like "$query_string =~ s/(\w|-)+=;//g;" following the changed line 3) idem with this line in sub store_query: my $query_string = $q->query_string(); Regards -- Alwin -----Original Message----- From: Tim Buck [mailto:tbuck@rrinc.com] Sent: mercredi, 26. janvier 2005 22:44 To: help-gnats@gnu.org Subject: [GNATSWeb] URL length limitation in IE Has anyone found a way to get around Internet Explorer's 2083 character URL length limitation in GNATSWeb? (besides not using IE -- some of my users would revolt if I took that option away). 2083 seems like a lot, but when doing Advanced Queries the column names and such add up very quickly! Tim Buck * Information Technology Manager * Recognition Research, Inc. PHONE +1 540 961-6500 * FAX +1 540 961-3568 * EMAIL tbuck@rrinc.com No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People -- P. T. Barnum _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
Alwin The gnatsweb interface remembers the "return_url" and it is passed back in queries and cookies. This normally takes over a third of the amount of space for a cookie or a query. This is then used to return the user to their previous query. After a edit, this is used to take the user back. Often this is not where the user wants to go. This may cause the execution of a long query or the user just wants to see their edits. I believe that the interface can be changed slightly to not remember the return URL and not save it in cookies. After an edit, the user can go to the view interface for the GNAT that was just updated. Do users depend on the return_URL feature? Thoughts? Stuart -----Original Message----- From: help-gnats-bounces+stuart_stevens=sierralogic.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnats-bounces+stuart_stevens=sierralogic.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Dieperink Alwin Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:12 AM To: 'Tim Buck' Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org Subject: RE: [GNATSWeb] URL length limitation in IE Hello Tim, It can be solved by removing empty parameters from the query url. This was done partially and inconsistently. Just follow these steps to change your gnatsweb.pl. 1) Add this function: sub strip_empty_params { my ($url) = @_; $url =~ s/(\w|-)+=;//g; return $url; } 2) Change every occurence of "$q->self_url()" with "strip_empty_params($q->self_url())" exception in: my ($query_string) = strip_empty_params($q->self_url() =~ m/^[^?]*\?(.*)$/); remove eventual lines like "$query_string =~ s/(\w|-)+=;//g;" following the changed line 3) idem with this line in sub store_query: my $query_string = $q->query_string(); Regards -- Alwin -----Original Message----- From: Tim Buck [mailto:tbuck@rrinc.com] Sent: mercredi, 26. janvier 2005 22:44 To: help-gnats@gnu.org Subject: [GNATSWeb] URL length limitation in IE Has anyone found a way to get around Internet Explorer's 2083 character URL length limitation in GNATSWeb? (besides not using IE -- some of my users would revolt if I took that option away). 2083 seems like a lot, but when doing Advanced Queries the column names and such add up very quickly! Tim Buck * Information Technology Manager * Recognition Research, Inc. PHONE +1 540 961-6500 * FAX +1 540 961-3568 * EMAIL tbuck@rrinc.com No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People -- P. T. Barnum _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 406 bytes --] Stuart Stevens wrote: > Do users depend on the return_URL feature? Not that I know of. I don't know what Yarin has in store for gnatsweb's future, but I can definitely see persistence of session-related data on the web-server side being one of the "must have's". -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ [-- Attachment #1.2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 140 bytes --] _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats