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Posted by Rik Wasmus on 08/29/07 12:01
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:24:27 +0200, rf <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
> "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:op.txtif1vr5bnjuv@metallium.lan...
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:59:37 +0200, rf <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:op.txtd9j2p5bnjuv@metallium.lan...
>>>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:24:28 +0200, rf <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
>>>>> news:5jklf7F149hU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> what is the maximum lengths for a $_GET string?
>>>>>
>>>>> A couple of hundred bytes or so.
>>>>
>>>> Virtually limitless.
>>>
>>> True. In theory.
>>>
>>>> The bottleneck in using very long urls seem to be the ua's & http
>>>> servers
>>>> themselves, especially MSIE.
>>>
>>> So, as I said, the limit is a couple of hundred of bytes or so.
>>
>> Call me picky, but '2,048 characters' does not equal 'a couple of
>> hundred
>> of bytes'.
>
> 2048 bytes exactly? :-)
Nope, it depends. 1 character is not neccessarily 1 byte offcourse.
> Please cite a reference to this figure. I have heard figures as low as
> 256.
It's Microsofts own limitation on MSIE, you can find it on their site. MS
seems to be the lowest of the bunch (UA's, servers). Possibly there are
UA's with an even lower limitation, I haven't found them yet.
> It is after all up to the UA whereas post is not.
As far as I gather, there is in this case no real UA involved but rather
just a piece of code that can do HTTP requests. Wether or not his code can
handle larger of smaller URL's depends.
> "a couple of hundred bytes" means exactly what it says. Enough for a few
> short gets and if it breaks then it's time to use post.
Aside from the fact that the URL is only limited by software using it,
indeed, it shouldn't be that large, but it could. If you mean to say
'don't make it that large' (and for very good reason) say that, don't
claim it's 'a couple of hundred bytes': That's simply not true, and may
confuse the OP if he checks up on it
> And even 2048 is not
> nearly enouth for a "text file" which the OP specified, especially when
> later in the thread the OP admits to 2MB.
Indeed, file upload by GET is something to run away from immediately. The
OP really should POST (or PUT, or use another protocol (FTP comes to
mind))..
--
Rik Wasmus
My new ISP's newsserver sucks. Anyone recommend a good one? Paying for
quality is certainly an option.
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