LiveCode Server latency causing empty results

[David Bovill]

I've had the same issue.

This is how I see the problem. UCL encoding. Long auto generated url's can
have this that break the rules rule coding wise. The browser and many
libraries seem tolerant of this automatically urlencoding stuff internally.
Live code fails because it's not doing that?

On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net> wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> <javascript:;>] 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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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