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Long, Long? Long URLs

By Simon Fodden

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I had occasion today to hunt up online a decision of the European Court of Justice and to link to it. The ECJ provides links that may be the longest URL I?ve ever seen. I illustrate with a typical example:

http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&newform=newform&Submit=Submit
&alljur=alljur&amp;amp;amp;
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;jurcdj=jurcdj&jurtpi=
jurtpi&jurtfp=jurtfp&alldocrec=alldocrec&docj
=docj&docor=docor&docop=docop&docav=docav
&docsom=docsom&docinf=docinf&
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;a
mp;alldocnorec=alldocnorec&docnoj=docnoj&
docnoor=docnoor&typeord=ALLTYP&allcommjo
=allcommjo&affint=affint&affclose=affclose&numaff
=C54%2F05+&ddatefs=&mdatefs=&ydatefs=
&ddatefe=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;
amp;amp;mdatefe=&ydatefe=&nomusuel=&domaine
=&mots=&resmax=100

Obviously what?s happening here is that the program is providing for all possible perms and combs for the production of a record, thus the endlessly repeated ?amp;? which the html code for an ampersand (gone wrong, as it happens, because it?s oddly self-referring, the proper code being &). Whatever the reason, this is just silly.

Until the ECJ gets its online act together, you can always find the case in BaiLII and use the URL they provide. Here?s one for the same case as the long, long? long URL above: http://www.bailii.org/eu/cases/EUECJ/2007/C25405.html

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).