Re: OT - number of chars in querystring

On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 11:47 AM, Darren Gamble wrote:

It appears that you might be submitting a lot of data. If that's the case, you should really have your application determine the information to be submitted and then store/create them as hidden values in a form. That way, not only will you have no problems with length, but you don't have to worry about the client caching it.

I wanted to use GET rather than POST method so that users could bookmark the results of the form -- it is essentially a search engine for a MySQL database. The form has built-in limits to how long the inputs can be, and in fact most of the inputs are really <select> listboxes and not text-style inputs, so I'm not really worried about having TOO many characters -- but it could get over 255, which is exactly the number that I thought I had read was a maximum. Thanks for the reply, Darren. 2048 seems like a workable limit to me. But I'm curious about your suggestion -- how would I get the user inputted data into hidden form variables without submitting the form in the first place? Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com