Re: encrypted query string trouble on OSX
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Jon Robinson wrote: > > > Plus I also think there is a limit in URL length. > > what is limiting? platform, WebCat, browser? My source has a limit of 32K or > so and we are under 1K. But the size of the query string does *seem* to be > involved. > Older browsers would choke on any GET with lots (*) of characters. It may be that Apache is respecting this limit. I see no specification in HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 that a hard limit exists, but I know that there are problems with large URL's.You should always use POST when sending large quantities of data from browser to server. You should also consider storing all data locally to the server and sending only a cookie or ?cart=[CART] to the browser.John(*) I don't remember how many is lots, but 1024 or 2048 are likely numbers...-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Jon Robinson wrote: > > > Plus I also think there is a limit in URL length. > > what is limiting? platform, WebCat, browser? My source has a limit of 32K or > so and we are under 1K. But the size of the query string does *seem* to be > involved. > Older browsers would choke on any GET with lots (*) of characters. It may be that Apache is respecting this limit. I see no specification in HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 that a hard limit exists, but I know that there are problems with large URL's.You should always use POST when sending large quantities of data from browser to server. You should also consider storing all data locally to the server and sending only a cookie or ?cart=[cart] to the browser.John(*) I don't remember how many is lots, but 1024 or 2048 are likely numbers...-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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