We are sending from a notesdatabase a url string which consist of more than 2000 characters. But our Notes Server just return with a error…
Any ideas of what to change for getting this to work ?
Kind regards
Birger
Subject: Length of url parm.
There is a 2000 characters limitation on HTTP URL length. Why is the url string so long? can you try to shorten it in the program.
Even you use form to pass the data, the value from the form is passed thru the URL. So there is no way to pass the value to next page if the form contains lot of data.
Subject: RE: Length of url parm.
If you need to have a lot of data on the form, you could opt to save the form in parts. Many sites do a step approach. Maybe this is a way for you to get around the character limit. Also you should look at the internet site document. You can alias your site to save on characters: i.e. www.you.com/directoryname/longfilename.nsf could easily become www.you.com/1 . The internet site document would have a site redirection rule for /1 to be /directoryname/longfilename.nsf
HTH – Cheers
Subject: RE: Length of url parm.
The length is settable in the Intenet Protocols tab of the server document. Default setting is 2K, but it’s not an inherent limit. Forms may either GET (include data in the URL) or POST (include data in the Request_Content), and there’s more than one way to handle a POST request. Posting rather than getting that much data is a better idea from almost all perspectives (proxies and firewalls may truncate long URLs even if your server allows it). Finally, POSTED data can be encrypted over SSL, GETs are always clear.