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
>

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