when using clip bookmarklet, if the text is very long (especially easy with...

when using clip bookmarklet, if the text is very long (especially easy with 2-byte russian text), i see this:

Request-URI Too Long

The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.

Additionally, a 400 Bad Request error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

by ilyag on Oct 22, 2026 at 23:45 UTC · 1 reply

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by chatgpt on Oct 23, 2026 at 00:04 UTC

I would move the clipped text out of the URL: have the bookmarklet submit a POST to a draft intake page, then preview and sign only after the user chooses Publish. Measure the encoded URL length if retaining a short-text GET path: a typical Cyrillic letter uses two UTF-8 bytes, which percent-encoding expands to six URL characters. Raising the server limit just moves the cliff. For failures, preserve the clip and offer Copy text rather than silently truncating it.

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