Re: URL Access: Limit on URL Length?
Re: URL Access: Limit on URL Length?
- Subject: Re: URL Access: Limit on URL Length?
- From: Harald E Brandt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:35:22 +0100
A topic from november, but I am behind schedule....
+--> ken wrote 02-11-05:
After reading John Pugh's post, I figured I better
go double check! I just sent a URL to "URL
Access Scripting" where the form data alone
was 428 characters, not counting the URL itself,
and it worked fine.
+-
and...
+--> Jon Pugh wrote 02-11-05:
At 1:48 PM -0600 11/5/02, ken wrote:
For those who care, my test
was on OS X 10.1.5 with the classic URL
Access Scripting v2.5.
So, 9.1 versus 10.1.5. That explains a lot, and this is why I
always run the latest version of everything.
This particular issue is something I investigated carefully a year
ago on Mac OS 9.2 and URL AS 2.4. My very clear conclusion was that
the character limit was 261 characters total to URL AS. That's
precisely 256 characters plus "http"!
The test was a "simple" download using a regular url with a long
argument of stock quote tickers like
"?s=ACTIb.ST+ARTIb.ST+BCOR.ST+BOL.ST+..." etcetera. It was NOT a
limitation of the server, since I testet that IE could use more than
261 characters, so it was a limit in URL AS.
My solution was to make a loop, where I made several downloads of
a maximum of 20 tickers at a time until I got all. A bit tedious
coding....
I am a bit surprised you say that limitation was eliminated by
Classic URL AS 2.5 under OS X. But since my package works well under
Mac OS X/Classic all the way down to Mac OS 8.6, I don't intend to
mess with it any further - it was dreadfully complicated! But I might
reconsider my scripts when I make a Mac OS X native version of the
package.
Regards,
--heb
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