How to pass a lot of data from an agent to a form?

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Hi all,

We have a unique situation. Notes’ inability to use Request_Content in a form has forced us to use an agent to read data from a POST command.

The question is this:

Is there a way that an agent could pass a lot of data (more than the URL is capable of holding) to a form? This is not the agent called in the WebQueryOpen statement. This agent will be calling the form.

Note: We do not wish to save the data anywhere.

Thanks for your help in advance. Post here is suggestions and/or questions.

Rick

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Subject: How to pass a lot of data from an agent to a form???

I’m not sure if this would work for your application but the reference below

is a pretty neat agent that issues a …/form?CreateDocument. It appears

that doc.Request_Content(0) has a limit of 32,000 characters. At least using

a form with a series of “”.

How much data are you sending?

Anyway the reference below uses a …/form?CreateDocument url and then using a

Java OutputStreamWriter sends “fieldName=fieldValue” pairs. I have tested this

technique and was successful in appending over 80,000 characters to one richtext

field. I stopped testing after that so it can probably handle more characters.

Richtext fields are limited to no more than 64K writes at a time so it would

seem that the ouput writer is handling the chunking. There are actually three

fields for this data of lengths, 36002, 36002, and 8684 characters respectively.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/fe5c769765cdd13385256c5b002203d7?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,URLEncoder.encode

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Subject: RE: How to pass a lot of data from an agent to a form???

pass data from an agent to a form? easy. Do it on the back end and present the result.

The only bugger here is that they may not choose to save the form. Use a field to check that and periodically delete the unused forms.