Andreas Schmidt wrote:
>
> Mark, you got it: error is
>      URl too long
> what brings me to the next question:
>      What is the limit ???

Some limits can be adjusted with configuration directives:

        http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#limitrequestbody

You particular limit of LimitRequestLine cannot exceed 8190 bytes, so you are
stuck with that as the maximum size of a GET request.

However, if you rewrite your CGI to use POST instead of GET, the new limit is
LimitRequestBody which defaults to 2GB.  I trust that you will be sane enough
to not have to adjust this upwards.  ;-)

- Mark B.

>
> Best regards, and thanks, Andreas
>
> Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>@RAVEN.UTC.EDU> on 12/10/2000 05:29:50 PM
>
> Please respond to Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Sent by:  HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: [HP3000-L] Browser Error: no data
>
> Whenever anything weird is happening with Apache, the first thing you want
> to
> do is look inside /APACHE/PUB/logs/error_log which will usually point you
> to
> exact cause of the problem.
>
> In this particular case, because a CGI is involved with large amounts of
> data,
> you might be experiencing SR 8606128926, which is fixed by:
>
>         NSTFDT6A BT on 6.0
>         NSTFDR2A GR on 6.5
>
> The likelihood of experiencing this problem increases if there is a slow
> network link between your browser and server.  The common scenario is that
> it
> will work fine over the high speed office LAN, but will fail at remote
> sites or
> from home.
>
> It's also possible there may indeed be some CGI POST upper limit, but if
> there
> is, you should certainly see a message referring to this in the error_log.
>
> - Mark B.
>
> Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to build a (simple) Web-based Editor to edit .html pages
> > residing on HPe3000 (to avoid any FTP handling).
> > By submitting out of a form a large text area I receive in Netscape the
> > error
> >      The document contained no data.
> >      Try again later, or contact the server's administrator.
> > and the form is not submitted,
> > and in IE I do not get an error but the input of the text area is
> shortened
> > so that I loose input data.
> >
> > In my HTML documentation it is stated that there is no limit in the size
> of
> > a text area for submitting out of a form.
> > Either this is wrong (and I have to contact the author) or there is an
> > option I didn't find within my Apache/iX server.
> >
> > Can someone help me out ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany