Posted by Randy Webb on 02/24/07 01:22

trpost@gmail.com said the following on 2/23/2007 7:48 PM:
> I am using ajax / php where I am looking up some info from the
> database and populating a select list dynamically, however I am
> running into some sort of size limitation with the ajax.response
> object. If the string I am passing to javascript from php is too large
> javascript does not get it all the data. The magic number appears to
> be 6123 characters, anything below that it works fine, anything above
> and if I alert the ajax.response, I see the string is cutoff. Any
> ideas where this limitation is defined?

Probably implementation independent. But, if you are trying to pass 6K+
of data you are doing something wrong. That is a *lot* of data.
Especially for a select list.

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Randy
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