+BigFurryMonster Posted June 22, 2022 Posted June 22, 2022 Is there a maximum cache page length? Quote
+Hügh Posted June 22, 2022 Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) If there is one, it's at least 1,000,000 characters. (It's so long that Firefox's so-called "full page screenshot" can't capture it all!) Edited June 22, 2022 by Hügh 1 Quote
+Hügh Posted June 22, 2022 Posted June 22, 2022 ...but when I tried to add 50,000,000 characters... 1 1 Quote
+cerberus1 Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 On 6/22/2022 at 10:11 AM, BigFurryMonster said: Is there a maximum cache page length? Maybe I'm confusing it with something else, but when we started, I thought it was 500 words for the short and 5000 for the long description. Now I don't think there is one. Even then we wondered who would actually go through all that before it became annoying... Most times we don't bother with very-lengthy descriptions on low D/T hides, finding that most never had anything to do with the cache. 1 Quote
+baer2006 Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 21 hours ago, Hügh said: ...but when I tried to add 50,000,000 characters... ... which I regard as a feature . Otherwise, if you actually could stuff 50 million characters into a cache description, it would create 50MB+ GPX files, which might easily crash apps and/or GPS devices. Many years ago, there was a 3rd-party HTML editor to create cache descriptions, which uses "inline" BASE64-encoded images, leading to several MB of data per cache. This didn't work well at all with many GPS devices, and after some complaints, GS disallowed such coding. 2 1 Quote
+Hügh Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, cerberus1 said: 500 words for the short and 5000 for the long description Ohdearthatwouldbequiterestrictivewouldntit? 34 minutes ago, baer2006 said: which might easily crash apps and/or GPS devices You give me an idea... My guess it that there likely is no (attainable) limit because they are storing the cache description in a TEXT column. Edited June 23, 2022 by Hügh 3 Quote
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