This would be much more efficiently handled with cfftp or even wddx. Since
all of these machine will have modems in them already. You may want to set
up ftp and telnet servers on the actual machines. So you can easily dial up
and download any current troubleshooting data you need. I think
troubleshooting thousands of CF/SQL (hopefully this isn't on a windows OS)
installations is going to be costly enough without sending a tech out to
figure out what is wrong with the machine. Ouch I just thought about
liscensing! ;-)
As for your original question though, there may be a theoretical limit, but
server RAM and resources will be the first size limit you run into. Upload
time is the second limitation, which can be set with the requestTimeout=XXX
url variable. By default CF stops wating for completion of form data at 300
seconds.
Good Luck!
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: Data Size Limit for Form Variables
> Hello Listers,
>
> We are working on a project that will use CF and SQL as the backend
> to a kiosk application that we are building. The kiosk(s -- hundreds
> to thousands of them) will need to periodically call home, connect
> to the server and upload information about itself, like weekly error
> logs for example. My question is:
>
> Is there a limit to the amount of data that can be sent via the FORM
> scope, not in each variable, but in total? Or put another way, at
> what point do you decide to write a text file on the client side
> and upload it, then act on that with a CGI application, versus parsing
> FORM variables with CFML ?
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> TIA & Best Regards,
>
> Geoff Hoffman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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