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Ronen Rabinovici
Ronen Rabinovici

Reputation: 9102

Export long HTML texts to email (avoid "The requested URL /... is too large to process" 414 error)

I use the following mailto:... to export text to mail, but since sometimes the text is too long, I get the "The requested URL /... is too large to process." 414 Error. See: What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers? .

var URI='mailto:?subject=' + encodeURI(subject) + '&body=' + encodeURIComponent(body);
window.open(URI,'_blank');

How can it be done in a way that would allow to export an email longer than the URL limit length?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 466

Answers (1)

Paul D. Waite
Paul D. Waite

Reputation: 98786

There isn't any other way to provide a purely in-browser interface for creating an e-mail, so you're pretty much stuck with the browser's URL length limits.

You could write some server-side code that lets you upload the text in question via an HTTP post request, and then sends the e-mail from the server. But, unlike mailto, that doesn't use the end-user's own e-mail program/address.

Upvotes: 1

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