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		biesnecker on March 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History of the browser user-agent string (2008) I need to bookmark this for the next time I hear “oh let’s just encode the params as a string” from a coworker.

csours on March 6, 2018 [–]

Surely, THIS TIME, it won't balloon out of control! And who will ever need more than 255 characters of PATH?!

File under: Problems that require a time machine to fix. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110131-00/?p=...

biesnecker on March 6, 2018 | [–]

The road to hell is paved with one off exceptions that are temporary until we get a better implementation in place anyway. :-)

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