link tracking function is trimming long urls to 255 char

[hadifarnoud]

we have long urls which contains token key for download. when I click on the url it redirects to the original one which is trimmed to 255 characters.

[willpower232]

You'll have to modify the database for that specific Postal server to alter the varchar field for url into a text field (or mediumtext etc)

Atech or someone else will have to add a migration to make a similar change. I'm not sure how to migrate those databases.

[hadifarnoud]

I think we can consider this a bug. there are many cases that urls are longer than 255 characters.

[willpower232]

Yes it most certainly is but the only way to fix it is to make the database modifications I have mentioned.

[hadifarnoud]

I was unable to fix it locally. Not a Rails literate here. I ran into gem install issues and eventually gave up after days of debugging.

can someone please make a pull request for this bug?

[willpower232]

As I said, the problem is in the database so you'll need to use MySQL tools to make the fix for now.

[willpower232]

I've found a fix but it needs to be merged and run manually at the minute