I thought the URL lenght limit applies only for URLs typed int he browsers address bar, doesn't it?
Or does it also apply to the src-URL in an iframe? On Jun 17, 7:01 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM, codingGirl > <astrid.thuec...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > > > Ok, I know browsers have URL length limits. But I was talking about > > sending data as part of the src="http://myappspot.appspot.com? > > somdata=abcdefg" of an iframe. So I was wondering are there limits > > > 1. how much data I can stuff in that src-URL? I guess there is no > > other way to do it if one uses an iframe. > > That depends on the browser, rather than App Engine. I'm not sure what the > hard limits are on what common browsers will accept. > > > > > 2. are there any time limits while the browser fetches the appengine- > > webpage for the iframe? Will appengine just time out if the src-URL- > > data string is too long so it takes to long to finish the request? How > > long can it take? > > The 30 second request limit only starts after App Engine receives the > request. At any rate, with a maximum URL length on the order of a few > kilobytes, even the slowest user is not likely to take more than a second or > two to transmit the URL! > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > > > On Jun 17, 12:41 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> > > wrote: > > > Hi Astrid, > > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:20 AM, astrid.thuec...@googlemail.com < > > > > astrid.thuec...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > In general - how much data can I send in an request to the appengine > > > > and be sure it won't time out? Is the amount different between a GET > > > > and POST request? > > > > Requests are limited to 10MB, and the counter on your request doesn't > > start > > > until the entire request has been received. > > > > > Another thing is, that I would like to create an iframe and send some > > > > data in the src-URL string: > > > > > <iframe src="http://myappspot.appspot.com?somdata=abcdefg"; ... > > > > > > I fear that in special cases there might be many iframes of this type > > > > on a users site and the src-String could be really really long. Does > > > > this mean it would time out? > > > > The most data you can reliably transfer in a URL is on the order of about > > 1k > > > (different browsers have different URL-length limits), which is so small > > it > > > will take an insignificant amount of time to transmit. > > > > > Does it make a difference if there are > > > > many iframes on a single page, since a users connection will try to > > > > load all at once, connection speed is split by the number iframes. > > > > isn't it? Does this increase the danger of running into timeouts? > > > > Browsers will request at most two resources from the same site > > > simultaneously, regardless of how many there are to fetch in total. > > > > -Nick Johnson > > -- > Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: > 368047 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
