Limitation in "Post"ing

[HoMyGod]

Hi,

is there a limitation with the "post" method?
<form method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;...&quot;>
.
.
.
I mean, what is the maximum size if the field or the maximum number of input?
<input type=&quot;text&quot; class=textbox value=&quot;tutu&quot; name=&quot;aNameNb34&quot; size=&quot;20&quot; maxlength=&quot;30&quot;>


Thanx a lot

 

[luciddream]

its a lot... more then when using the querystring i believe. luciddream@subdimension.com

 

[HoMyGod]

What do you mean with querystring? I am looking in a way to transmit a lot of &quot;input&quot; to another file using post (and then to recover the infos with a request.getParameter). I would like to avoid the ENCTYPE=&quot;multipart/form-data&quot; that put a total chaos in the mapping of the inputs.

Is there another way to do that?

 

[Karl Blessing]

post, and get are basically the same thing ( I am not sure, but are those the only two method when giving the data to another page? )

post just allows the other end to get the information without it being shown up in the top address bar, or seen in the URL (such as in ASP, you would have to use request.form(&quot;variable&quot etc)

where as get, does the same, except it shows it in the URL tag, ?var=value&..., (in ASP this would be request(&quot;variable&quot like all the other requests)

far as limitations on either goes, I have yet to hit a large number, especially if you create an array of form values (same variable name, just different values everytime) Karl
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[luciddream]

you don't need multipart/form-data unless you are sending files... if you're not... any method of sending the form data works...


the querystring is when the data is loaded into the url.

it looks something like this:

http://www.blah.com/blah.cgi?name=dave&age=21

post transmits it to your cgi with a buffer..

there isn't really that much of a difference between the two methods, except that the user can see the data in the querystring, and i think you can hold more data using post.

i'm not positive, but, i don't think there is a limit to how much data you can send using post. luciddream@subdimension.com

 

[jaredn]

and with get its only 256 bytes, methinks... jaredn@eae.net -

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[HoMyGod]

Actually, I have a problem of limitation. I send about 70 form using post method. I recover my info by using a request.getParameter(&quot;theNameOfTheForm&quot function. The 2-4 last fields are ko. But it don't follow a rule. Sometime I loose half of the sentence, sometime more...it is very curious and I wonder if the integrity of the datas is correctly respected during the transmission...

 

[luciddream]

what language are you using to get the data? luciddream@subdimension.com

 

[HoMyGod]

Java Server Pages (jsp)...

 

[yahve]

Hi,

From what I understand one difference is that GET submits name/value pairs as POST sends a copy of the form's content as a data block. It is suppose to be easier to grab and process the data submitted from a POST because it can pass more information in a cleaner fashion.

Please don't ask me why...

Bye.
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[HoMyGod]

Yes, I agree with all of you, POST is better than GET, I have already tried both possibilities and there is no doubts, POST is better. But I still don't know what are the limits of the POST or if there is another alternative or maybe a possibility to extend the size we can transmit...I know that one solution would be to use a multipart/form-data that is usually used to transmit files or pictures, but we can use it just for FORM too. The problem is that there is no order in the transmission of the strings.

MultipartRequest multi = new MultipartRequest(request, aTempDir);

Enumeration params = multi.getParameterNames();
while (params.hasMoreElements())
{
String name = (String)params.nextElement();
String value = multi.getParameter(name);

Something like this allows you to do that...

So, if anybody has a suggestion that can help me to transmit all my strings, thanx.

H.