Re: encrypted query string trouble on OSX
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texte = Thanks John!May I ask, by suggesting that we sort all data locally, are you saying store in a database?> > > > > 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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Thanks John!May I ask, by suggesting that we sort all data locally, are you saying store in a database?> > > > > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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