[TYPO3-core] RFC: Fix "Clear all phash-rows" that cause oversizedURL length

[Martin Kutschker]

Michael Stucki <michael at typo3.org> writes on 
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:25:03 +0100 (MET):

> This is a CVS patch request.
> 
> Problem:
> The Info module displays information about all indexed records of a
> page. 
> There is a button to remove all those phashes, but the generated URL
> just 
> lists all phashes in a comma-separated list.
> On large sites, this URL may be too long and deleting of phashes is
> not possible (or has to be done manually, each one by one).
> 
> Solution:
> Fix the problem by introducing a new value "ALL" instead of a phash
> list.
> 
> Disclaimer:
> This is an ugly workaround because the same function is called twice,
> but I have no better solution at hand. If you want to fix it more
> elegant, this can still be done in a second step.


Possible other solution is to compact the list: sort the ideas and write continues ids as id1-id2. But still the URL could get too long.

+1 but add a comment that it is a workaround (and why!).

Masi