LiveCode Server latency causing empty results

[Mike Bonner]

Not sure it'll make a difference, but have you considered using POST rather
than get?

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> I don't think it's the URL length.  URL length may sometimes be an issue,
> but most often only for the server; since this works in a browser I think
> it may be reasonably safe to rule that out.
>
> Cookies won't appear in the data, but they can be seen with whatever tools
> your browser provides for examining cookies.  However, since this is an
> intermittent problem with a high success rate, I don't think this is
> related to required cookies not being provided.
>
> Have you tried other combinations of words of similar total length in both
> the browser and LC?  Maybe it's a specific set of words, or the way they're
> URL encoded, or something else along those lines.
>
> Can you share the full URL of an example that fails?
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  ____________________________________________________________________
>  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
>
>
> Roger Eller wrote:
>
>> Richard, if I view source of the result in a browser, it is just text,
>> exactly as the database spits it out, no formatting as it is not meant for
>> browser/human consumption.  I haven't used or needed to use cookies
>> before.  This application works for 99% of the requests.  Based on the
>> size
>> of the words searched for, usually 316 is the most it can get in a single
>> URL.  I just did one with 392, and it worked in the browser, but not
>> LiveCode.
>>
>> ~Roger
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at
>> fourthworld.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Roger Eller wrote:
>>>
>>> > The URL is really long, so maybe I am hitting some upper limit within
>>> > LiveCode.  The same URL pasted into a browser (chrome) receives a
>>> > result, but get URL within LiveCode does not. The parameter is just a
>>> > long list my server script looks up in a database. The list length
>>> > varies.
>>>
>>> Could there be session info in that URL?  Or perhaps the server is
>>> expecting a cookie that the browser provides but is not provided by your
>>> script's handling of the headers?
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Richard Gaskin
>>>
>>
>
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