that sounds wrong, can you post you POST example? 2009/1/12 Robert Sanson <sans...@asurequality.com>: > I was using POST for a lot of my communications between OL and a ColdFusion > server, but discovered that POST requests seemed to hit a limit on the > length of the URL, whereas the GET was more tolerant. Here is an example > that failed with a POST, but succeeded with a GET: > > var mgatexy = > "http://web-cf8dev.agriquality.co.nz/agribasemapdata/indexpage.cfm?mode=maingate&farmid="; > + farmid + "&easting=" + easting + "&northing=" + northing + "&lat=" + > latitude + "&long=" + longitude; > var request = OpenLayers.Request.GET({ > url: mgatexy, > callback: setHTML3 > }); > > Robert Sanson > >>>> <bart...@osgis.nl> 10/01/2009 1:03 a.m. >>> > Hey Tim, > > it just came to my mind since I wanted to port all of my application's WFS > requests to use Protocol.WFS. I use quite a bit of GET requests where POST > is not needed. > > But you're right, why not use POST all the time. > > Best regards, > Bart > >> Hey- >> >> bart...@osgis.nl wrote: >>> Hi list, >>> >>> are there any plans to support HTTP GET in Protocol.WFS? >> >> It would be nice to have a property that let you decide if you always >> wanted GET. The drawback, of course, is when you've got a filter that >> serializes (+ rest of url) to 2083 chars. >> >> We're you envisioning a property, or some logic that tried to determine >> if POST was necessary? >> >> Also, it's probably worth asking why it makes a difference (aside from >> being gross that we have to POST GetFeature). >> >> Tim >> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Bart >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dev mailing list >>> Dev@openlayers.org >>> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> >> -- >> Tim Schaub >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org >> Expert service straight from the developers. >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> Dev@openlayers.org >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The contents of this email are confidential to AsureQuality. If you have > received this communication in error please notify the sender immediately and > delete the message and any attachments. The opinions expressed in this email > are not necessarily those of AsureQuality. This message has been scanned for > known viruses before delivery. AsureQuality supports the Unsolicited > Electronic Messages Act 2007. If you do not wish to receive similar > communications in future, please notify the sender of this message. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. > www.surfcontrol.com > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >
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