>
> > I'm working on a perl based text source code management
> > system. We would like to be able to paste the entire
> > contents of a text file, which might be quite large, into
> > a TEXTAREA field and have it sent to the server via a POST.
>
> Maybe that's not such a good idea. If my monitor was set to 640x480 it
> sure would take a long time to scroll through all 30,000 lines of text.
> You might want to look into a simple Java applet. What would stop
> someone from trying to edit a 10mb file via a TEXTAREA box? Then when
> they hit update they have to send that whole 10mb back across the
> network again. Perhaps you could display the file contents as a series
> of links and whenever someone clicked on a link, let them edit the
> immediate 1,000 lines. If a user wanted to edit a 10mb file, all you
> would have to do it put 300 TEXTAREA boxes on your page. Or you could
> let the user download the document, edit it, then reupload it.
Thanks for the reply.
This would still have the same problem. If they add content in
one of those fields that THEN goes beyond 30,000 bytes total
(which is not a lot), then Netscape will stop them dead at 30,000 bytes,
and they can't type any more. Same problem.
We're really looking for a way to get around this limitation in Netscape,
our preferred browser. Hopefully a parameter or registry setting.
Otherwise, MSIE will have to be the Repository recommended browser,
because it has less limitations, and you never know when a limitation
will become a problem.
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