Forum OpenACS Development: Re: rp_filter and host-node mapped subsites

Collapse
6: Re: rp_filter and host-node mapped subsites (response to 4)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/24/11 09:17 AM
Note that there are implementation limits on the maximum size of URIs in various user agents, depending on their versions. Ignoring these limits can lead to crashes, hanging requests and truncated URLs. Therefore mapping arbitrary POST requests into GET requests with query variables is not a good idea if you want to support an open set of user agents, especially, when large files might be involved.

http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/forms/what-is-the-limit-on-querystring/get/url-parameters.html
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html

Collapse
7: Re: rp_filter and host-node mapped subsites (response to 6)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 06/24/11 02:56 PM
Thanks Gustaf, I'd forgotten about that. Can you suggest an alternate method of handling this case? It seems a shortcoming that the redirect only supports GET requests.
Collapse
8: Re: rp_filter and host-node mapped subsites (response to 7)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/24/11 05:30 PM
have you looked at rp_internal_redirect?