Proxo's Byte Limit...

[amy]

I just ran into this limit (trying to sane-ify some page with over 64KB of CSS) and although the link in the OP is no longer alive due to the demise of CastleCops, I managed to retrieve a copy of the patch from the archive and have attached it here for future reference.

There is a hardcoded limit of 32767, which the patch simply changes to 99999, but I believe it should be OK to remove the limit completely and simply rely on common sense and your own discretion on how high you want to be (that didn't come out quite right... but you get the idea )

For those truly paranoid about running the patching executables, to effect the patch you can simply open a hex editor, search for

Code:

81 FB FF 7F 00 00 7E 05 BB FF 7F 00 00

which you should find at offset 0000AF99, and replace with

Code:

81 FB 9F 86 01 00 7E 05 BB 9F 86 01 00
      ^^^^^^^^^^^          ^^^^^^^^^^^

(The underlined bytes are the hardcoded limit. 00007fffh = 32767, and 0001869fh = 99999. What the code is doing is comparing the limit with the hardcoded one, and setting it to the latter if it exceeds.)

If you want to go the whole hog and remove the limit completely, change one byte to

Code:

81 FB FF 7F 00 00 EB 05 BB FF 7F 00 00
                  ^^

which basically bypasses the check completely. Enjoy responsibly

(It's not like I wouldn't know how to fix it, but it was nice to have a reference.)