LiveCode Server latency causing empty results

[Ralph DiMola]

I have always used the form==> put url
("https://blah.com?test=fdsfs&day=Tue") into MyVar. Some of my request have
very long urls and I have had no problems as of yet.
 
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Mike Bonner
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 2:38 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: LiveCode Server latency causing empty results

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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