Is this the longest URL you've seen?

I clicked on a digital camera advert on e-Bay, and this URL came up.

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-5...PowerShot+SD870+IS&category=7185&pid=44849916

796 characters long. :cry
http://tinyurl.com converted it to http://tinyurl.com/34bdze :major

Makes you wonder why more sites don't use tinyurl (and similar sites) for users to click on? Bazza

 

Notice how you still end up with the same URL in your address bar after clicking the tinyURL link?

This is because you are just getting redirected to the original address from the tinyURL server. You are visiting two servers to request 1 webpage. Seems like a waste of time and bandwidth to me (albeit very small) for a benefit I dont really understand rolleyes

 

This is supposed to be the longest URL out there. 1700 characters
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...5253D%26btnG%3DSearch&btnG=Search&btnG=Search

 

And the reason id say many sites dont use tinyurl, is because thats an extra load for them to go out and calculate tiny links for every page, more so on a site like ebay with millions of auctions each having there own link.

 

I agree completely in the case of e-Bay and Amazon and similar high usage sites. I thought for smaller private sites listing links, to various other links, that tinyurl would take up less space on their web pages. I realise that visits to 2 servers are required. Just a thought. Obviously I am not a website designer. Bazza

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I guess if I had a database of urls that had gotten too large, and I wanted to spend as little server processing time as possible (my server, that is), I would like a service like that. I usually just spend server time with an efficient compression/retrieval algorithm.

 

This one might not be the longest in terms of characters, but very interesting, nonetheless!!

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/

 

Thanks @KIM, the trivia buffs will go mad about this link.

Make sure viewers check out heading (as per thumbnail) as well. Bazza

 

i know a longer one..
change that to:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en........

 

I don't think there is any limit to a URL with combinations of domains, sub-domains, pathnames, and parameters. However, each hostname is limited to 63 chars ... so that "longest" one as some merit as a contender.