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Length of URL Causung Page Not Found Error

Former Member
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I have a BSP application that on submit opens a results page.

I have found that if the URL it sends is over 398 characters in length using Internet Explorer (I am using IE6) then I get a Page Not Found error.

If I use the Firefox browser it works OK.

The company I work for has IE6 deployed worldwide so using anything other than IE is not an option.

I realise this is more of a Microsoft problem, but I wondered if anyone else have come across this problem and had found a work around.

Many Thanks

David

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eddy_declercq
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Hi,

I guess are refering to a from. Did you use

<form ... method="post"> ?

If you don't specify anything it's defautl a get, with everything ending in the URL as result.

See also http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html

If you buidl your own URL, pls consider using cookies.

Eddy

Former Member
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Eddy,

It uses GET.

I need to see how much work is involved in making it POST.

Thanks

David

eddy_declercq
Active Contributor
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None, just put method="post" in the form and that's it and your long URL worries are gone.

athavanraja
Active Contributor
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check out the following link for difference between HTTP POST and GET. You need to understand this well, if you are going to be in web development.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html

Regards

Raja

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rainer_liebisch
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Hi David,

please also read note 796354 about the GZIP compression with long URLs.

Regards,

Rainer