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Trouble submitting form data; possibly length issue?
user name
2006-08-23 17:11:52
I have a form with a lot of fields. When user enters values
and clicks 
submit, the form submits back to itself to validate. If the
required 
fields are filled, it gives them a confirmation screen and
they click 
another Submit button to do the final step, which logs the
values to a 
file and sends email to people.

But I've been having trouble with some users who are
entering long 
values in a textarea. When the text is long, say over 1,000
characters, 
the browser (MSIE) doesn't do anything when users click
Submit. If I 
remove some of the lines of text, it does submit.

Does this sound like a browser problem rather than an
embperl problem? 
I'm not aware of the character length limitations of form
textareas. 
There isn't any length limitation when passing this data in
forms to 
embperl, right?

Thanks for any suggestions on where to look.

-Michael


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Trouble submitting form data; possibly length issue?
user name
2006-08-23 18:25:59
Disregard my message. We figured out that the form wasn't
submitting 
because I was using the GET rather than POST method.

-Michael


> I have a form with a lot of fields. When user enters
values and clicks 
> submit, the form submits back to itself to validate. If
the required 
> fields are filled, it gives them a confirmation screen
and they click 
> another Submit button to do the final step, which logs
the values to a 
> file and sends email to people.
> 
> But I've been having trouble with some users who are
entering long 
> values in a textarea. When the text is long, say over
1,000 characters, 
> the browser (MSIE) doesn't do anything when users
click Submit. If I 
> remove some of the lines of text, it does submit.
> 
> Does this sound like a browser problem rather than an
embperl problem? 
> I'm not aware of the character length limitations of
form textareas. 
> There isn't any length limitation when passing this
data in forms to 
> embperl, right?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions on where to look.
> 
> -Michael
> 
> 
>
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