>Hi all, > Does anyone know how long a URL can I feed to the getNetText command >without getting into trouble? I want to send data to a CGI script, and >I've read that the specification speaks of about 40KB as 'top boundary'. >Without even testing it, I am most confident that Director does not >handle _this_ lengths... > Can anyone tell? > hallo Martin, a test says more than 50 experts unisono strong believes - I wrote me a simple perl which emulates a huge WOM (write only memory) you may send it any sort of data via GET and it will return the number of bytes. Since I have an http server running under NT for testing purpose I checked it there and even after I fed getNetText() with 2mb+ of string data the maximum value returned was 4067. The url, excluding the query string, was 29 chars so the limit appears to be 4 k brutto. I tried to feed netscapes adress line with a looooong query string but somehow netscape didn't really appreciate this and soon both netscape and the server called dr.watson. I put the perl on an apache webserver and approached it via getNetText() the url w/o data had 48 chars and the maximum returned was 4048 bytes now. Thus, I assume that the upperLimit for getnettext's url length is 4096 bytes. Test it yourself, the perl lives at <http://www.lingo.de/cgi-bin/dp_wom.pl?put+lots+of+data+here> Best regards Daniel Plaenitz
D. Plänitz