Hans Juergen von Lengerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > David Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Feb 19, 2002: > > The encoded information is [...] split into reasonable length hidden > > fields. > > Why not put everything in one field? Are there restrictions? Does it > make a difference when using POST?
The POST encoding dose not have a limit on data length. Heck, people use <textarea> tags with huge amounts of content all the time. However, I didn't feel comfortable assuming that the HTML parser used by the browser could easily parse a potentially 20kb attribute. Basically, I didn't want to make my production application a stress-test for my user's browsers. :-) It was easy to break the data up into multiple hidden fields, because Base64 encoding breaks the data into multiple lines by default. I simply encoded each line in one hidden field. I would *NOT* use my module with a GET form if you expect any size of data. I've seen the query string get truncated at some arbitrary size limit. David
