"Belinda" wrote in message
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: "Patrice" <no****@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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: > You can't pass more than 2048 characters in the querystring (for IE,
this is
: > browser dependant, don"t know for others).
: > You may want to use POST instead.
: >
: > Also what is your scenario ? Is this string needed client side ? you may
: > want to avoid to expose this string as this could represent quite a high
: > risk.
: >
: > If this is for inter applications communication, you may want to
enchance
: > this mechanism (encryption, standard package such as the SOAP SDK ?)
: >
: > Patrice
: >
: > > Belinda" <be********@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de
: > news:41**************************@posting.google.c om...
: > > Hello All
: > >
: > > I have the following test.asp page which needs one parameter querystr
: > > but my querystr is a very long string value. When I send a long value
: > > the query string is getting truncated after some characters.
: > >
: > > Can you please kindly share the code segment to workaround how to pass
: > > such a long string value to a asp page. This is how I invoke the test
: > > page:
: > >
: > >
http://localhost/?querystr=select ............ from xxxxx
: > >
: > > 'test.asp
: > > <html>
: > > <body>
: > >
: > > <%
: > >
: > > response.write("Hello World!")
: > > w=request.querystring("querystr")
: > >
: > > response.write "<td><p></td>" & w
: > > %>
: > >
: > > </body>
: > > </html>
: > >
: > >
: > > but part of my query string never gets passed to the asp page appears
: > > asp as a limitation on max string length can you please provide me a
: > > workaround how I can overcome and pass the right string to asp. Please
: > > post the code snippet.
: > >
: > > Thanks
: > > Belinda
:
: Many thanks for all your views.
:
: Actually this parameter passing and running of this URL will not be
: from IE I will do it from a Excel web query. So security should not be
: a issue.
:
: Can you kindly let me know how I can do it using POST some samples of
: doing it just like passing it in the URL parameter.
Belinda...
You're just typing this in on the address line or what?
To POST, you set method="post" in a form and submit the form to your target
..asp page.
--
Roland Hall
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