I am trying to help a friend - this is not a Cobalt issue, so I apologize 
for being off topic. If this bothers you hit DELETE now. If you have any 
ideas, please send them to me off line.

Jale

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>We have a web app that were selling and have run into a technical
>problem. I thought some of the gurus out there may be able save us some
>time chasing down the solution.
>
>We're noticing a problem when large sales orders are submitted over the
>web.
>
>We build the part, quantity and unit of measure list on the client (using
>JavaScript variables), then submit them to a database server when the
>client clicks to submit the order.
>
>It appears that the somewhere down the line the string of data we send to
>the database server is getting truncated. The problem only occurs on very
>large orders (about 100 line items).  We submit the content of the
>variables using a cgi call created through JavaScript. I can also send
>submissions using a Java Applet if I need to, but in this case we're
>using CGI.
>
>I'm wondering if anyone knows what the size limit is for a JavaScript
>variable and/or if there is a limt on how long the data string can be
>when making a CGI script submission.
>
>We're trapping the data that does get through to the database server and
>it appears that these records (which are truncated because of the
>problem) are about 2.2K bytes long.
>
>Any one know what the limitations are? The database server is only
>limited by the size of the hard disk, so the problem isn't with the
>database server.
>
>Thanks in advance.

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