Quoting Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>:

> >It happens that I needed to generate a diagnostic today for an SRU
> >server that couldn't handle a query simply because the query was too
> >darned long
> 
> If I recall correctly, it was deprecated because it wasn't believed to
> be useful compared to the more explicit diagnostics 38 and 23.

Running CQL Post into some other Web back end using Get. The AOLServer, for
instance, used to hardcode the buffer for URIs to be 1024 bytes, viz. a GET
of anything longer would break it. Other bits of software (in the tradition
of M$ IE) too have hard limits but truncate.

Since we are talking "Web" service and HTTP has
  HTTP Error 414 - Request URI too long
then its natural, I think, that one has an equivalent (if used or not):
Query too long. (even if our well designed servers should probably never
have call).

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