Maximum size of POST data

[Andre Garzia]

On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> What is the maximum size of data that can be sent with the POST 
> command?
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>

Richard,

Theres a way to transfer huge data using chunked data transfer from 
HTTP 1.1 spec. Best way to look for info is online doc "HTTP Made Easy" 
at http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/
there you see that you can use this to transfer huge data. Hope this 
help. I'll quote the doc:

If a server wants to start sending a response before knowing its total 
length (like with long script output), it might use the simple chunked 
transfer-encoding, which breaks the complete response into smaller 
chunks and sends them in series. You can identify such a response 
because it contains the "Transfer-Encoding:Êchunked" header. All 
HTTPÊ1.1 clients must be able to receive chunked messages.

  A chunked message body contains a series of chunks, followed by a line 
with "0" (zero), followed by optional footers (just like headers), and 
a blank line. Each chunk consists of two parts:
	¥ 	 a line with the size of the chunk data, in hex, possibly followed  
by a semicolon and extra parameters you can ignore (none are currently  
standard), and ending with CRLF.
	¥ 	 the data itself, followed by CRLF.

  So a chunked response might look like the following:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

1a; ignore-stuff-here
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
10
1234567890abcdef
0
some-footer: some-value
another-footer: another-value
[blank line here]

cheers
Andre

-- 
Andre Alves Garzia ð 2004 ð BRAZIL
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