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