Re: Connection with another site WebForm Size limit

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are using a VARYING variable, then you have to add 2 to the 
pointer to skip over the 2 bytes where VARYING stores it's current length.


On 9/1/2011 12:32 PM, HarryWilliams wrote:
> Quick question,
>
> I used the WEBFORM_SetPtr, I noticed i had to add 2 to the pointer. Is
> this because of the variable field, and the first 2 places?
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> On 8/31/2011 5:01 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
>> Hi Harry,
>>
>> The usual complaint (that comes up frequently on this list) is that
>> WEBFORM_setVar() can only handle 256 chars of data for a form variable.
>> The response we give to that is that you can use WEBFORM_setPtr(),
>> which does exactly the same thing as setVar, but allows megabytes for
>> the variable size.
>>
>> But, your complaint seems to be saying that WEBFORM_postData() limits
>> the entire form to 256 bytes. That is not true.
>>
>> So either you're confusing WEBFORM_postData() with WEBFORM_setVar()? Or
>> you have another issue that I'm not familiar with.
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
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>> On 8/31/2011 4:44 PM, HarryWilliams wrote:
>>> Someone wanted us to send them a message on their site. They put and
>>> XML variable in the Form HTML variable. www.website.com?XML=<IN>xxx</IN>
>>>
>>>
>>> callp WEBFORM_postData( Form : myPointer
>>> : dataSize )
>>>
>>>
>>> I noticed that the information that this webform could handle is 256
>>> characters. We did expand a little more than that. If I expand it,
>>> is there somewhere else it will bite be?
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