Posted by Rik Wasmus on 08/29/07 09:35

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. The bottleneck in using very long urls seem to be the
ua's & http servers themselves, especially MSIE.

<http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html>

>> I have to upload a text file, but it's quite awkard to use $_POST if
>> $_GET
>> would work.
>
> Why is it awkard to use post?
>

Because one cannot link to it directly?
--
Rik Wasmus

My new ISP's newsserver sucks. Anyone recommend a good one? Paying for
quality is certainly an option.

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