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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:05:57 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        menger-freebsd@gate.kgv.edu.hk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please help: Buffers
Message-ID:  <20000309200557.V14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000310015004.89685.qmail@student.kgv.edu.hk>; from menger@student.kgv.edu.hk on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:50:04AM -0000
References:  <20000310015004.89685.qmail@student.kgv.edu.hk>

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* Matthew Enger <menger@student.kgv.edu.hk> [000309 18:23] wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> At the school I am attending we are running Squid 2.3.STABLE1 on FreeBSD 3.4-
> STABLE with cyberpatrol filters. We reciently discovered that if the URL 
> entred into the squid redirect program for cyberpatrol is over 1024 
> characters the program will not recieve any more text. This is causing 
> problems for some URI's being accessed through our proxy which are (for some 
> odd reason) longer then 1024 characters.
> 
> I wrote a perl script below to act as a redirector and it is having the same 
> problem:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> $|=1;
> use strict;
> 
> while (<>) {
> 	my @X = split;
> 	my $url = $X[0];
> 	chomp $url;
> 
>         print "$url\n";
> }
> 
> Does anyone know how I can change this limit for both C (the cyberpatrol 
> program) and perl programs?

You're not mentioning which browser you are using, but i know that 
some if not all versions of MSIE don't work with URLs longer than
1024 characters.

-Alfred


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