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Posted by Brian Cryer on 03/31/06 19:21
"Benjamin Niemann" <pink@odahoda.de> wrote in message
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> Brian Cryer wrote:
>
>> <rounner@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1143777920.914233.274790@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>> On some computers using IE, when submitting a form that does a post to
>>> another web site with a bunch of hidden items, if the size of the items
>>> is too large the form wont perform the action.
>>>
>>> Ive tried to see what is different about the computers in question but
>>> cant for the life of me find anything.
>>>
>>> Could it be some sort of buffer overflow protection, or has anyone else
>>> had this problem too?
>>
>> Its definitely a POST and not a GET? With "get" there is a limit to the
>> length of the url which would translate into hard limits for the amount
>> of
>> data you can push across (2kb or more depending on the browser).
>>
>> I've not heard of any limits regarding POST .... just checking ... take a
>> look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q208427/ this indicates a 2048
>> character limit for both post and get.
>
> This only applies to the URI in the FORMs ACTION attribute. There is no
> limit (in the browser) for the FORM content when using the POST method (if
> there is one, than its greater than 50MB - I often had to deal with file
> uploads of such size without problems). The server-side code that handles
> the code probably has a limit (the server-side code may decide to enforce
> any kind of limitation, including obscure and confusing ones).
Yes, you are quite right. I should have read the KB article further.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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