Requests fail when URL is too long

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Requests fail when URL is too long

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 3 comments

Requests fail with HTTP status 500 and the following line in the memento log:

Error: ENAMETOOLONG: name too long, mkdir '/path/to/memento/.memento-cache/https___host/get__really_long_url?with=some&query=parameters'

In this case, the length of the entire URI was just 275 characters.

A suggestion: Use a (reasonably long) hash of the URL to generate the folder names. Or just truncate it, if fast lookup on the filesystem is not a requirement.

Answer 1 · 2019-08-19T15:35:01.000Z

Nice catch! I'll try and publish a fix tonight

Answer 2 · 2019-08-19T17:27:03.000Z

Alright @sadimusi, I just opened #31 that will fix this issue. Thanks a lot for reporting this bug 😉

Answer 3 · 2019-08-19T17:56:58.000Z

Thanks a lot for the quick response! 👍 Great to see an active open source project :)