[ale] Data encoding in a web page

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Mon Oct 20 08:40:27 EDT 2003


The upper limit is NOT in the http protocol, to my knowledge.  Rather, may 
web-applications do not process large requests "well".

David
On Sunday 19 October 2003 09:53, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> There is an upper limit.
> I've hit it before.
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> Hard pressed to remember what it is though.
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> I'll post it if i can find it.
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> 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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