TEXTAREA issue

POST Content not transmitted correctly if too long !

[didier]

dear all,
I facing something strange with my production serveur (WIN2K / APACHE-SSL) The problem is the following one :
Any news or forums or any other information transmitted via a texteara field is not tranmistted if the content represent more than 130/150 caracters... Every thing work well on my development server input type='text' is OK, textarea is OK as well.
I never met that before, I'm facing the same issue when I try to open/write a single text file. So mysql seems not involved in this problem.
Why does it works for a short sentence and not for a 10 lines text.
Could SSL occurs trouble if not well configured?

[Brett_Tabke]

Welcome to the board. Should be easy enough to diagnose where the problem is at. I assume you've tried the simplest bare bones text area and receiver routine you can and displayed the content back at yourself before doing anything with it?

I'd bet it has to be in whatever receiver routine you are using. Either that, or the server is some how configed not to accept long posted content. Limiting the length of posted data is always desireable to stop flood attacks.

[wsjordan]

A recent project of mine has required sending very large chunks of data via TEXTAREA fields. The first problem I came across was that the webserver we're using (AOLServer) wouldn't allow transmissions of more than 65536 characters. The workaround that I found was to use ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data". That may work for your problem as well.

The other strange problem I found, which doesn't really relate to your issue, was that Opera won't transmit large chunks of text. I never pinpointed the actual limit, but I'm guessing it's somewhere around 1MB. Every other field would transmit fine, but the large textarea field would end up blank each time.