[Owncloud] SabreDAV 1.6.3 in ownCloud 5?

Georg Ehrke ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de
Fri Jul 20 13:41:50 UTC 2012


Am 20.07.2012 um 15:35 schrieb Georg Ehrke:

> Am 20.07.2012 um 15:21 schrieb Diederik de Haas:
>> On Friday 20 July 2012 14:57:54 Georg Ehrke wrote:
>>> In the update instructions is written, that the column URI has to be a
>>> varchar with a length of 200. Calendar uses a length of 255, so everything
>>> will be fine with calendar. @Thomas: Would you like to update the contacts
>>> app database? It uses currently varchar with a length of 100.
>> 
>> Why these arbitrary short lengths for URI?
>> I _thought_ that the maximum length for an URI was 2048, but according to [1] 
>> and the standard RFC 2616 [2] there is no real limit on the length of an URI, 
>> although 2000/2048 seems to be the practical one.
>> 
>> Since it looks like there needs to be a db 'conversion' anyway, why not do it 
>> properly?
> A URL is not a URI.
> The URI (Uniform resource identifier) is a kind of an id for e.g. a contact.
> Evenmore, afaik a varchar's max length is (or was) 255.
> 
To correct myself:
Technically,
a URL is a URI,
but not all URIs are URLs.

> Cheers,
> Georg 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Diederik
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url
>> [2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
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