RE: direct input limit?

Ah, yes. Thanks guys. That'll be the problem.
Strange they chose GET and not POST. Forgot the limit for GET was so low.

Anyway. Thank you again

Paul Cooper

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-validator-css-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-validator-css-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jukka K. Korpela
> Sent: 24 August 2005 05:57
> To: www-validator-css@w3.org
> Cc: Paul Cooper
> Subject: Re: direct input limit?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like you are using Internet Explorer or similar which indeed
> > does not submit forms using GET if there is more than a certain amount
> > of data (~2K IIRC).
> 
> According to Microsoft, the limit is 2,083 characters for a URL and
> 2,048 characters ("2K") for a path inside a URL:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q208427
> 
> This implies that using the GET method, there is an upper limit for the 
> amount data. The exact limit depends on the form, since the URL in the 
> action attribute and names of fields as well as punctuation required by 
> the syntax affect the length of the URL that the browser constructs upon 
> submission.
> 
> -- 
> Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
> 
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> 
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