[thelist] Only IE-pc doesn't want to send form?

michael ensor edc at wnc.quik.co.nz
Tue Feb 14 18:26:06 CST 2006


thks for the clarification.......
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Subject: Re: [thelist] Only IE-pc doesn't want to send form?


: 
: > Op 14-feb-06, om 22:16 heeft michael ensor het volgende geschreven:
: >> GET sends the data as one string, so unless you know your form data
: >> will never form a string longer than 255 characters you should always
: >> use POST. Unix limit for string data is 255 characters.......
: 
: Sorry Michael, but that is actually not quite correct. Unix has no such 
: limit for "string data". And the choice of request method (GET or POST) 
: must be done on other basis than the amount of data.
: 
: Pieter Roosens scribeva in 14/02/2006 21:38:
: > Yes, thanks Michael. Now I remember I always used POST years ago, but  
: > without knowing why .. ah! That's always dangerous obviously ;-)
: 
: Indeed it may be dangerous to do things without knowing why :-)
: 
: But fortunately it is very easy to get to know things - just look at the 
: specs, in this case the HTTP specs:
: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
: 
: And this section tells when to use GET, and when POST:
: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.1
: 
: "In particular, the convention has been established that the GET and 
: HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other 
: than retrieval."
: 
: Saving data, sending emails etc. DO take other actions than just 
: retrieval, so in those cases POST should be used.
: 
: Roger Ly scribeva in 14/02/2006 19:33:
: > Some unconfirmed playing around seems to indicate that IE won't
: > attempt to process the URL if it is generated to be longer than 2101
: > characters.
: 
: Here comes the confirmation:
: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q208427
: 
: "Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length 
: of 2,083 characters, with a maximum path length of 2,048 characters. 
: This limit applies to both POST and GET request URLs. "
: 
: But obviously:
: "POST, however, is not limited by the size of the URL for submitting 
: name/value pairs, because they are transferred in the header and not the 
: URL. "
: 
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