Thanks, solved it straight away (little embarrassed to not have spotted it myself, but the system had been working as was for months!)
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:59, Upayavira wrote: > Phillip Nicolson wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am presently using cocoon with tomcat 5.0.19, and am occassionally > >seeing the following problem: > > > >I create a form, based upon various astronomical tools. Depending on the > >chosen tool the form will have a number of parameter fields, which may > >contain extremely long input values (references to locations of files on > >a grid system for example). Once submitted the values are used in a > >cocoon action. > >I am starting to see a problem for a particular tool which has >20 input > >parameters, each of which may be dozens of characters long. When this > >occurs pressing the submit button has no effect as the form is never > >submitted. > >Before I go mad investigating this can anyone tell me if there is an > >issue with URL lengths? > > > > > You should use POST to submit a form, not GET. GET tacks the parameters > onto the URL, whereas POST includes the details within the body of the > request. With POST, you can send as much info as you like. > > Your resulting HTML should say something like <form method="post" > action="yourpage"> > > Regards, Upayavira > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Phillip Nicolson Department of Physics & Astronomy Phone: (0)116 2523581 University of Leicester Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leicester LE1 7RH Web: http://www.astrogrid.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
