[ale] Data encoding in a web page

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Mon Oct 20 08:47:30 EDT 2003


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:35:02AM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> The upper limit is NOT in the http protocol, to my knowledge.  Rather, may 
> web-applications do not process large requests "well".

I've experienced upper limits in Konq but not in IE.  I had issues with
konq uploding large 4mb+ files into our bug tracking system.  I tested
with the bug tracking system because I was having issues when it was posting to
my code too.  After Mantis failed I assumed this was a limit in Konq.

> 
> David
> On Sunday 19 October 2003 09:53, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> > There is an upper limit.
> > I've hit it before.
> >
> > Hard pressed to remember what it is though.
> >
> > I'll post it if i can find it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Speaking of the absurdly long string and textareas, does anybody know how
> > much data can be passed via POST (not individual fields, but the whole
> > entire form as a single entity)?  I looked everywhere, w3 doesn't have it
> > as part of the http specification but surely there's an upper limit to how
> > much data can be passed...
> >
> >
> >
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