[FYI] LimeWire, FrostWire etc. drop queries longer than 30 characters

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[FYI] LimeWire, FrostWire etc. drop queries longer than 30 characters

by Christian Biere :: Rate this Message:

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For your information, LimeWire, FrostWire and any other fork of LimeWire drops
queries longer than 30 characters (whitespace included). It has been doing this
for about 3 years now. This has only become apparent to me a few days ago.

Please draw your own conclusions.

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Re: [FYI] LimeWire, FrostWire etc. drop queries longer than 30 characters

by Christian Biere :: Rate this Message:

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Christian Biere wrote:
> For your information, LimeWire, FrostWire and any other fork of LimeWire drops
> queries longer than 30 characters (whitespace included). It has been doing this
> for about 3 years now. This has only become apparent to me a few days ago.

gtk-gnutella from current SVN disallows creation of searches with search terms
longer than 30 characters (counted after normalization) as well now. As most
clients on the network are currently LimeWire or LimeWire-based, it does not
really make sense to emit searches which those discard anyway. It should also
help to see whether this limit is reasonable or not.

Keep in mind that you can use filters like +must_match and -must_not_match to
get more accurate results without using a longer search term.

*shrug*

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