Limit to number of selections specified on a URL?

stascher — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:01:40 GMT

Hello,

We have a extension that grabs the URL of the current app/sheet being viewed and attaches the current selections as an encoded string and then copies the result to the clipboard. The purpose is to allow the user to share a link to the sheet being viewed and have the same selections applied to it when the recipient of the link views it. The resulting string has the form:

https://<server>/sense/app/<app-id>/sheet/<sheet-id>/state/analysis/options/clearselections/select/<encoded-field-name-1>/<encoded-field-1-selections>/... etc.

The field selection encoding process basically wraps each selection value in square brackets, delimits selection values with semicolons and then calls javascript encodeURIComponent() function on the bracketed/delimited segment.

This seems to work fine until the length of the link hits about 575 characters (about 13 selections) and then the server returns:

HTTP Error 400. The request URL is invalid.

I've tried it using both Chrome and Edge and get the same result. From what I've read, there shouldn't be a limit to the URL length at least until you hit around 2048 characters. I'm well under that. Is there maybe a limit to the number of selections that can be specified on a URL?

Regards,

Steven

Re: Limit to number of selections specified on a URL?

stascher — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:04:41 GMT

Traced the problem to a server setting which limits the size of URL segments.

Re: Limit to number of selections specified on a URL?

Danijel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:46:30 GMT

@stascher I have the same problem. What settings did you change to get it working again?

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