Button Destination URI 255 char limit?

Question

While entering the "Destination URI" property on a button,
Jdeveloper is stopping me at character 255.
Has anyone else run into this and found a solution?
TIA
Searched history but did not find anything.
JDev 10.1.3.3.0.3
OAExt 10.1.3

Answer 1

Calling a Reports Server or Bi Publisher requires passing all the parameters, along with
what printer to print to and all the other stuff. This easily can exceed 255 characters.
As long as the report I have has only one or two parameters, the approach of using
Destination URI off a button worked great.
( And I'd rather not add redundant VO attributes with cryptic short code names
to fake my way around this! )
In any case, IE supports 2048 character long URLs ( being one of the SMALLEST..
Firefox and others go much bigger ) and the HTTP spec says nothing about any length limit.
Interestingly, prior postings on the forum indicate that elsewhere people are setting
URLs that exceed 255 characters ( in their examples/dumps ) and those work just fine,
on other item types?
I was hoping to avoid more pp methods to do this since the Destination URL works perfectly
for the task... until I hit this (highly questionable ) data entry limit.
Thx.