Dein Auftrag ist es, das Rupfen der Posts im V3-Forum technisch so handzuhaben, dass wir der momentan regierenden künstlichen Post-Grössen-Barriere gute Nacht sagen können.
Schon ein normales Review und hin und wieder ein zorg-Treff-Proti sprengt die maximal erlaubte Grösse eines Posts. Da leidet die Qualität eines Forums doch sehr, wenn die eigenen Gedanken von so einer Einschränkung virtuell zerstückelt und in Scheiben gehauen werden, nöd?
Variable data is sent as part of the URL for GET requests. In POST requests it is sent as a separate HTTP header.
As a request GET has some sort of maximum string length limit (the maximum limit of a URL string). So POST requests are better for large data strings.
If you use GET, info is logged by the server (apache). For example, if you submitted password in cleartext, we can see it. POST request data is not usually logged.
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http://www.faqts.com What is the maximum length of a URL string?
What is the longest URL that Apache can handle?
Is there a maximum number of GET arguments that can be used?
There is theoretically no limit. The HTTP spec doesn't specify, so it will vary from server to server (possibly browser to browser as well). Someone reported a while ago that apache could handle something like up to 8k...
Well, I *think* there was a 256 character limit on some browser. (Read that in some HTML book :)
Could've been lifted by now, but if it's more then 256 characters you're better off with cookies or POSTing the data anyway.
Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length of 2,083 characters, with a maximum path length of 2,048 characters. This limit applies to both POST and GET request URLs.
If you are using the GET method, you are limited to a maximum of 2,048 characters (minus the number of characters in the actual path, of course).
POST, however, is not limited by the size of the URL for submitting name/value pairs, because they are transferred in the header and not the URL.
RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, does not specify any requirement for URL length.
