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Spurious error "post: body: expected text between 1 and 20480 characters" when commenting jam entry above 900 characters

A topic by komehara created Jul 31, 2023 Views: 188 Replies: 1
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This is a reboot of https://itch.io/t/2114444/i-saw-an-error-body-expected-text-between-1-and-20480-characters

except even after shrinking and removing my picture, the error is still here.

Repro

  1. Pick a jam game entry
  2. Enter text above 900 characters
  3. Try to post

If you need to check the specific jam entry and my post below (which I had to cut because of that):

https://itch.io/jam/baf-jam-2023/rate/2131834#post-8325299

Should I just post the rest on the main game page then? Or double post? (not great)

Wow, I found the case: I backed up my text in the meantime, including the image tag, but in a different text editor (Zim) this created an odd character, invisible in browser:

I had got rid of the first image tag, but copied back this odd character (representing the old image as bytes? it’s too small to be so, but maybe it contained the URL to the old image which was too big indeed)

After erasing the invisible character, the bug was fixed in both jam and main game page (which also prevented posting comment with big picture).

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