I believe it's the content length of the posted content. I'm assuming that you've already tried [ns_conn request] and that's truncated?
Rusty On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > What exactly is the 'ns_conn contentlength' command really for? The > docs say only, "ns_conn contentlength returns the number of bytes in > the content passed in." In fact, that command is just returning the > conn->contentLength value out of the Ns_Conn structure. But, what is > conn->contentLength really? > > I thought I could use 'ns_conn contentlength' to check the length of > the URL, so that if the client passes in URL variables which exceed > the "ns/server/$server_name maxline" parameter (default 8192), I could > return an error message. (If the URL is longer than maxline, > AOLserver silently truncates it.) But when I do [ns_conn > contentlength] in AOLserver 3.3+ad13, it always seems to return 0. > > So, is this 'ns_conn contentlength' just the wrong command to try to > use for this? What is it really for? And is there any way for me to > get the actual, pre-truncation length of the URL? > > Thanks! > > -- > Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.piskorski.com > ------------------------------------------ Rusty Brooks : http://www.rustybrooks.org/ Spewing wisdom from every orifice ------------------------------------------
