It would be helpful to have a longer feed URL -- it looks like right now that field is 256 characters long? I am trying to subscribe to an Amazon feed that's 350 characters long and (of course) it doesn't work. I think I see where I can edit the field length myself (w/ PhpMyAdmin) but thought you should know that this may become an issue for more people as on-the-fly RSS feeds are created.

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greg_y commented

UPDATE: I see now that it's not possible to have VARCHAR (or CHAR?) fields > 255 characters in MySQL prior to 4.1.3.

The long RSS URL I want to use is created by Amazon Feed Generator (http://www.onfocus.com/amafeed/), which uses Amazon Web Services to create a query in the URL ... which takes ~350 characters.

With more sites (like Google News) promoting similar on-the-fly RSS feeds, I imagine this will become more of a problem.

Is there any way around the 255 character limit that won't break Aggregator?

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jt6919 commented

have the same problem, does anyone know how to make that field bigger without breaking anything?

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jt6919 commented

This is a feature I would pay you to fix. I can't add tons of RSS feeds because of this limit....is this any easy thing to fix? How much would you want to fix this right away??

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magico commented
Category: feature » bug

Bug according to this http://drupal.org/node/70201#comment-142654