Re: HTTP POST from PHP using a link

..oO(Manuel Lemos)

on 01/14/2008 11:39 PM trpost@xxxxxxxxx said the following:

I tried the Class and it looks to be able to send POST data to a page
and request back the results. I am looking to actually goto the page
as if you had clicked on the link. I basically created an app that
sometimes tries to send data to a page that exceeds the max length
allowed in the URL. What are options for getting around that limit. I
could see using a form if I had just one link, but I have hundreds and
can't think of a way to just send the data from the link I click on if
I used a form.

I think the limit is in the browsers, something like 255 characters. So
I think you can submit a GET request using that class to an URL without
that limit.

There are also buffer limits in the web servers. For sending large
amounts of data to a script POST is the correct way.

Micha
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