[ale] Data encoding in a web page

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:06:45AM -0400, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> Speaking of the absurdly long string and textareas, does anybody know how
> much data can be passed via POST (not individual fields, but the whole
> entire form as a single entity)?  I looked everywhere, w3 doesn't have it
> as part of the http specification but surely there's an upper limit to how
> much data can be passed...

I don't think there is an upper limit on POST data.  At my job, we use
HTTP POST to transfer xml data between sites.  I think the biggest file
size we've sent is around 15 MB.

HTH,
Jason
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