Posted by Tim Roberts on 01/13/08 23:35

seaside <seaside.ki@mac.com> wrote:
>
>Does anybody know, of PHP - especially file_get_contents() - restricts
>the size of the URL, which is passed to send a GET request?

The practical limits are described here:

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

But there's more to it than that. In order for a file upload to happen,
you must use a PUT request, and you must set enctype=multipart/form-data.
You can't send a file with GET.

>I need to pass serializes array from one app to another. These
>structures might get big....

POST is the right answer for this.
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Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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