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The Web Uri Open Beacon for the Internet of Things
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Clarification on URL length #224

Closed paulirish closed 9 years ago

paulirish commented 9 years ago

Wasn't totally clear how long the URLs could be but Jake spelled it out very clearly:

Let's say we have a URL of the form "https://www..com". "https://www." is encoded in the scheme prefix. ".com" is encoded within the URL field but as a single byte. This leaves 16 bytes for , which amounts to 16 characters in almost all cases.

Would love to see that added somewhere here, maybe in this section: https://github.com/google/uribeacon#short-urls

scottjenson commented 9 years ago

merged #236