I am trying to send an automated email containing a link from a system. Unfortunately I have to include a whole mass of data in the URL, the smallest it will be is about 800 chars, the longest over 2500!!
I know there's a limit on the query string and URL lengths allowable for most browsers however have noticed that if i go over about 1000 in Outlook I cannot even click the link. It has the tooltip, tells me to click, but clicking does nothing at all. All the other links within the email are still working.
What I am wanting to know is whether this is a limit imposed by Outlook, by my configuration or whether it's some compliance thing that Outlook is doing (possibly incorrectly).
If I have to reduce the query string it will be a huge amount of work so I would like to know whether my target is actually going to fix the problem or whether it's only a partial fix.
On my computer I have worked out that 1034 is the magical number, anything over that and the link's dead.
If anyone can provide even a little information on this that'd be great.
Before you make suggestions regarding using this size URL, I have racked my brain about alternatives... I can't use a DB, I can't remove fields, I can't use POST (unless there's a way within emails I have never seen), I can't use sessions (the landing page has never been visited by the user), I can't use cookies (same reason as sessions)... if there's any other suggestions then I'm all ears...
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