[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #62800: Related Posts creates long URLs which cause 414 Request-URI too long errors

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#62800: Related Posts creates long URLs which cause 414 Request-URI too long errors
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 Reporter:  trigiolfreeie      |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Posts, Post Types  |    Version:
 Severity:  normal             |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                     |
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 I'm honestly not sure where this code is, whether it's in WordPress core
 or in a common plugin, but it's something I've seen on many blogs, and
 it's badly broken. I've looked through a few common related posts plugins
 without finding the culprit.

 Related posts are often shown at the bottom of a blog post. These link to
 a related post, with a long query string looking something like this:
 ?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=52827&relatedposts_position=2. But
 sometimes it's much, much longer. (And sometimes, it's completely absent.
 Odd.) Many thousands of characters. This will, of course, cause a 414
 error. I've seen this many times on many different websites. I'd like to
 fix it, but I cannot find the code.

 Example blogs on which I've seen this error more than once:
 https://captainawkward.com/ and https://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/ and many
 others (intermittently).

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