If szData is the content of your textarea your are just doing a get. To post something you need a form with method="post"
The Post request has no maximal size (at least none that I know). Get is limited by apache by some 1400 bytes, what the spec says I haven't looked for. > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Danny Heinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Oktober 2001 16:21 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: HTTP POST request: maximum allowed data? > > > Hi, > > I have to tranfer data from a textarea to a JSP page, by > using the HTTP POST > request. > > I do it by javascript: > > var newPage = "/nnn/newpage.jsp?" + szData; > window.location.href=newPage; > > The data will be saved in a database then. I wonder what's the maximum > allowed data to send with a POST command. And the GET? I had > a look in the > RFC but didn't find any size limitation. But there is one. > > Is there a way to setup the web server (I'm currently using Tomcat > standalone 3.2.3 and 4.0) to accept more data? > > Thanks for any info. > > Danny Heinen > HITEC Luxembourg S.A. > > >
