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Solved.
Stupid me - propably because of a gnujsp installation there was a
servlet-2.0.jar in my classpath, which turned out to be the buggy jsdk
release that has been warned of before on this mailing list.
I removed it and now everything works fine.
Tilmann Singer wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I am posting the contents of a html-form to a servlet and read the
> contents with getParameterValues(), but if the number of characters
> posted exceeds a certain limit (somewhere around 1500), some parameters
> are truncated.
>
> Is there a maximum of characters that can be read from parameters from
> post requests? If so, where is it defined / can it be configured?
>
> I get all the data when I parse the InputStream from the request
> manually, but I dont want to switch to that, because the design of the
> existing project depends heavily on the getParameterValues() method and
> that would be a lot of work to change.
>
> When I set the enctype of the form to multipart/form-data then no
> parameters at all will be parsed automatically (i guess this is the
> expected behavior).
>
> How can I ensure that all posted parameters can be read by
> getParameterValues() ? Do I have to split up my forms and
> constrain the number of characters typed into the textarea fields? If
> yes, what is the limit?
>
> many thanks in advance, Tilmann Singer
>
> Configuration is
> jsdk2.0
> blackdown jdk1.1.7v3
> apache 1.3.9
> ApacheJServ-1.1-2 (this is the name of the rpm. I dont know where to
> find the actual JServ version ... I wonder if this is the latest
> release)
> redhat 6.1
>
> I had the same Results trying with different Browsers (Netscape 4.7 on
> Linux and Mac, IE 4.5 on Mac)
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