Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread Sean D. Cook
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an authentication scheme which checks every request for a valid cookie, and if your session has timed out redirects to a login page. After logging in, the request is resubmitted as a GET. This works great except when the original post is

Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread steven
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Sean D. Cook wrote: sub destroySession { delete session or mark for deletion } If you manage this with one of the IPC::Share* modules and don't get munged shared memory segment errors, I'd like to know how. Cheers, -- steven

Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread Kip Cranford
On: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:24:27 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking about saving the posted data to a temporary file and reading it back in after the login succeeds, but this seems messy and error-prone. Has anyone else had this problem? Are there any modules (maybe session mgmt stuff?)

Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread Drew Taylor
Kip Cranford wrote: I did this because in my system, I routinely need to allow file uploads of 100MB or more. This is too unwieldy, IMO, to upload, store, retrieve, etc. So far, this has worked like a charm. Dare I ask what that 100MB consists of? That's a lot of uploaded data... :-) --

Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread Kip Cranford
On: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:45:30 EDT Drew Taylor wrote: Dare I ask what that 100MB consists of? That's a lot of uploaded data... :-) Pr0n, mostly :) Seriously, though, most of the information consists of CAD binary data (I work in the automotive industry), so we're talking large parts,

redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-04 Thread chris
I have an authentication scheme which checks every request for a valid cookie, and if your session has timed out redirects to a login page. After logging in, the request is resubmitted as a GET. This works great except when the original post is large--the redirect URL gets way too long (10K or