Commented by: Umberto Masotti (umasotti)

I've followed the very technical discussion in fb-devel.
There where a proposal of a hack connected to "length" of message (if less than a predefined value, than it's a "special" message).
There is another hack, connected to the fact that the first five letters need to be "PLAN" followed by a blank, this let space to 2^32 - 1 different options as first four bytes (or more if characters aren't ASCII, don't know).
This will break existing programs, it's an horrible hack, but it's an alternative.

Commented by: Claudio Valderrama C. (robocop)

1.- Technical discussion should happen on fb-devel, not here.
2.- Hacks do not make us any favor
3.- Did you take time to read the original text in this tracker entry? It says:
"64K is also a limit imposed by the remote protocol for now".
This means we can't pass a string bigger than 64K from the server to the client library. You can create something longer, but it can't be delivered. A new protocol version is needed.

Commented by: Claudio Valderrama C. (robocop)

Enlarged up to 64K minus few bytes (of course, only if the tool passes a bigger buffer and handles correctly numbers between 32K and 64K).