<div dir="ltr">Hi Chris,<div><br></div><div> I just looked for revisions of a large initialization method in VMMaker.oscog and got the reply</div><div><br></div><div><div>'HTTP/1.1 414 Request-URI Too Large</div><div>server: nginx/1.12.2</div><div>date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:26:03 GMT</div><div>content-type: text/html</div><div>content-length: 193</div><div>connection: close</div><div><br></div><div><html></div><div><head><title>414 Request-URI Too Large</title></head></div><div><body bgcolor="white"></div><div><center><h1>414 Request-URI Too Large</h1></center></div><div><hr><center>nginx/1.12.2</center></div><div></body></div><div></html></div><div>'</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder could the API be changed so that the request doesn't include the body of the method, but only its selector, class and timestamp? The issue would appear to be here:</div><div><br></div><div><div>httpGet: actionString for: aMCDefinition</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>^ HTTPSocket</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>httpGet: self locationWithTrailingSlash</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>args: </div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>{ 'action'->{actionString}.</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>'mc-definition'-> {self serializeForRequest: aMCDefinition}}</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>user: self user</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>passwd: self password</div></div><div><br></div><div>Copying the aMCDefinition instance and setting its source to something small (nil?, the empty string?, the selector?) would solve the size problem. What info does the server require?</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small;border-collapse:separate"><div>_,,,^..^,,,_<br></div><div>best, Eliot</div></span></div></div></div>
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