Limitations of posting a form

[Christian Neuss]

> Is there a inherent limit in the amount of data that can be posted
> in a form?
Theoretically not, but there usually is an implementation limit
for both browsers and servers.

> I'd like to do a form that has ~80k of data sent back to the server.

> When I do it with OmniWeb, it just shuts down (with nothing noted
> in the console).
See? ;-)

Don't do this. URL encoding never was meant for ~80K. Besides, just
think what it does to the logfile. Use METHOD=POST instead, it's
really fairly easy. Instead of URL encoding forms data, it just
sends them via stdin to the CGI script.

Hope this helps,
Chris
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