RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#92] Maximum size of a handle

[Thomas Schaeck <SCHAECK@de.ibm.com>]

One thing to consider is that there are portals with large user populations
- potentially millions. An *unlimited* handle length formally means that
portals must be able to handle handles that of unlimited size to be WSRP
compliant which is impractical for many scenarios.

Also, this would encourage some WSRP producers to use the handles for
storing large amounts of data.

Best regards,

Thomas



Sasha Aickin <AlexanderA@plumtree.com> on 09/20/2002 12:18:59 AM

To:    Gil Tayar <Gil.Tayar@webcollage.com>, wsrp-wsia@lists.oasis-open.org
cc:
Subject:    RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#92] Maximum size of a handle



URLs can easily be a few KB, especially if they involve URL-encoded
non-ASCII characters.  I'm personally not a fan of any limit for handle
length in the spec; I think that any length we give is fairly arbitrary and
will come back to bite us.

S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Tayar [mailto:Gil.Tayar@webcollage.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:01 AM
To: wsrp-wsia@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#92] Maximum size of a handle


As long as it's SHOULD and not MUST, it is OK, but anyway the 128 number is
too small. Our current implementation uses a URL as the "entityHandle" (a
la
Web philosophy), and URL-s can approach 128. A 1K-4K minimum (SHOULD, not
MUST) would be logical to me.

Gil

-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Tayar [mailto:Gil.Tayar@webcollage.com]
Sent: Thu, September 19, 2002 08:40
To: wsrp-wsia@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wsrp-wsia] [I#92] Maximum size of a handle


Topic:  interface
Class:  Minor Technical
Title:  Maximum size of a handle
Document Section: throughout
Description:
Current draft spec just says that a handle is a string. For reasons of
efficient processing, it would be useful to limit the length of the handle
to something reasonable. Considering that an entityHandle SHOULD encode the
consumerHandle when Consumer side persitence is used and that a refHandle
encodes an entityHandle and a sessionHandle, the length should not be too
small. Suggestion = 128 characters.
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