/* Declarations for url.c.
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
- 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
+ Inc.
This file is part of GNU Wget.
#define DEFAULT_FTP_PORT 21
#define DEFAULT_HTTPS_PORT 443
+/* This represents how many characters less than the OS max name length a file
+ * should be. More precisely, a file name should be at most
+ * (NAME_MAX - CHOMP_BUFFER) characters in length. This number was arrived at
+ * by adding the lengths of all possible strings that could be appended to a
+ * file name later in the code (e.g. ".orig", ".html", etc.). This is
+ * hopefully plenty of extra characters, but I am not guaranteeing that a file
+ * name will be of the proper length by the time the code wants to open a
+ * file descriptor. */
+#define CHOMP_BUFFER 19
+
/* Specifies how, or whether, user auth information should be included
* in URLs regenerated from URL parse structures. */
enum url_auth_mode {