[ale] Data encoding in a web page

[kafka at antichri.st (George Carless)]

 On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:35:02AM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > The upper limit is NOT in the http protocol, to my knowledge.  Rather, may
> > web-applications do not process large requests "well".
>
> I've experienced upper limits in Konq but not in IE.  I had issues with
> konq uploding large 4mb+ files into our bug tracking system.  I tested
> with the bug tracking system because I was having issues when it was posting to
> my code too.  After Mantis failed I assumed this was a limit in Konq.

Bear in mind that some application servers etc. will impose their own
limit to the allowable sizes of uploads - for example, in PHP you can set
a limit in the php.ini file.  This is probably useful for security reasons
etc.

Cheers,
--George