Topic: A way to handle really long URLs in the SRC attribute of the IMG tag

A way to handle really long URLs in the SRC attribute of the IMG tag

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Posted By: Mani_Iyer
Posted On: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 01:57 PM

In one of my JSPs I have an IMG tag whose SRC attribute consists of a very long URL (more than 10000 characters). The URL consists of a servlet name followed by a string of name value pairs. The servlet is supposed to return a jpeg image, but for the long URLs it fails to do so. Does anybody know a way of accomplishing this?

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Re: A way to handle really long URLs in the SRC attribute of the IMG tag

Posted By: Alex_Chaffee
Posted On: Saturday, November 3, 2001 08:51 PM

I assume the image is being generated by a servlet -- otherwise, why would you need such an ungodly long URL? It sounds like you've made a really bad design decision somewhere along the line. You should think about using an id-based indexing scheme, so that instead of SRC="buildimage?a=2&b=5&c=7&...zzz=999" you can use SRC="buildimage?id=123456"

If the images need to be built dynamically, you can assign the id "on the fly" to a given set of image attributes when you build the JSP.

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