URLencode bug?

[Chipp Walters]

For my app, the cr's screw it up. Thanks anyway.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> I think URL Encode seems to ignore linefeeds and/or returns in its midst,
> so
> an occasional line break or cr  should break up the line limit problems.
>
> On 17 March 2011 21:44, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I ran into this earlier and tried to ask about it, but wasn't very clear.
> >  When you urlEncode the field it turns it into one huge unbroken line,
> and
> > certain lengths of unbroken lines cause fields some problems it seems.
> The
> > line length you get from the urlEncode is within the accepted limits
> > according to docs, but something seems broken in fields. To see this in
> > action, try this stack.. Click add data several times till the line
> length
> > gets to 14700 and poof.  Only the overflow shows.  I didn't bother to
> find
> > the exact breakover point, but there it is. Also, behavior varies with
> line
> > wrap on and off. With line wrap off, things poof when you get to to 8400
> > line length, but the overflow never shows.  So my feeling is its a field
> > problem, not an encode problem.
> >
> > go URL "http://guidezone.info/FieldBug.livecode"
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to URLencode some data and for some reason it won't encode.
> > >
> > > Can anyone else get this to encode? It's a simple text field with no
> > funny
> > > chars.
> > >
> > > Here's a test: (put in msg box and hit return)
> > > go URL "http://www.widgetgadget.com/stuff/URLencodeBug.livecode"
> > >
> > > For some reason it CAN URLencode the first 3111 chars, but barfs on any
> > > past
> > > there. Is there a char limit to what URLencode works on?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > C
> > >
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> > > Chipp Walters
> > > CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc.
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