|  | Posted by Manuel Lemos on 06/14/02 12:00 
Hello,
 on 01/14/2008 11:39 PM trpost@gmail.com said the following:
 >>> I am looking for a way to send data from one page to another as POST
 >>> data without using forms or cURL.
 >>> I have a php script that is passing a list of cases from on page to
 >>> another when a link is clicked. This is working fine for the most part
 >>> as a link, but sometimes the list gets very large and gets cut off.
 >>> The reason it gets cut off appears to be a limitation on the amount of
 >>> data that can be passesd in the URI.
 >>> It looks like I can do this with cURL, but this script will run on
 >>> several servers that do not have cURL compiled in and I do not want to
 >>> recompile now.
 >>> I found a few posts that say this can be done with PHP and javascript,
 >>> but I found no good examples.
 >>> To give you an example on what I am doing:
 >>> <a href=case_details.php?cases=".$allCases."&priority=Low&PG=All>
 >>> $count</a>
 >>> $allCases is a comma separated list of numbers and can get very large.
 >>> i.e. 84638,48957,58945,45375,....
 >> You can try this HTTP client class. It can perform arbitrary HTTP
 >> requests without using Curl:
 >>
 >> http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
 >
 > I tried the Class and it looks to be able to send POST data to a page
 > and request back the results. I am looking to actually goto the page
 > as if you had clicked on the link. I basically created an app that
 > sometimes tries to send data to a page that exceeds the max length
 > allowed in the URL. What are options for getting around that limit. I
 > could see using a form if I had just one link, but I have hundreds and
 > can't think of a way to just send the data from the link I click on if
 > I used a form.
 
 I think the limit is in the browsers, something like 255 characters. So
 I think you can submit a GET request using that class to an URL without
 that limit.
 
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 Regards,
 Manuel Lemos
 
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