HTTP Post Maximum Characters

ASKER

None of those articles were helpful. They all refer to doing what I have already done with increasing the post_max_size

about a quarter of the log is making it to the DB

How do you test this? Are you looking in the DB or are you looking at the raw post data?

Also, have you tried making several smaller posts, perhaps with a key to coordinate the strings? Then you could reassemble the data on the server with the DB and perform the DB update from the collected posts.

ASKER

I am able to test it by looking at what made it to the Database and what what is the log file.

Can you get the strlen() value for the raw post data? I would want to see whether this is exactly the same as the data that was sent, or the same as the data that was put into the data base. The idea is to try to isolate where the truncation is occurring.

ASKER

I mis-spoked earlier. It's only passing about a tenth of the data. There are 474,047 chars in the log. 47,995 chars of that is being passed to the database via http post.

I think it's time for us to see the code that is POSTing the data and the code that receives the POSTed data.

ASKER

VBScript that captures the data and performs the HTTP Post

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile("C:\log.txt")
Set objTextStream = objFile.OpenAsTextStream(1)
logData = objTextStream.ReadAll
objTextStream.Close


'#Remove Any Double or Single Quotes from Log
logData = replace(replace(logData, "'", ""), Chr(34), "")


wscript.sleep 2000


Post_This = "node=ios2101&bkuptype=tsm&date=20110416&startt=1135&endt=1136&type=blog&status=0&log="&logdata



    Set objHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")

	    objHTTP.SetProxy 2,"mywebserver.org:80"
            objHTTP.Open "POST", "http://mywebserver.org/lib/post.php", True
	    objHTTP.SetRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Post Agent"
	    objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
	    objHTTP.send Post_This
	    wscript.sleep 3000
     	    message = VBCrlf & "Response from Server: "&VBCrlf& objHTTP.ResponseText
            wscript.echo message
    Set objHTTP = Nothing




wscript.sleep 500

wscript.echo "Done"

PHP script that receives the data and selects the type of handler

<?php
	if ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] != 'Post Agent') {
		echo "\nfailure: must post from a valid server\n";
		exit;
	}
	
	define("VALID_POST", 1);
	define("IN_TASKSHEET", 1);
	
	require_once('db.php');
	require_once('interface.php');
	
	$db = new mydb;
	
	$keys = array_keys($_POST);
	
	foreach ($keys as $key) {
		$_POST[$key] = $db->escape($_POST[$key]);
	}
	
	extract($_POST);
	
	$rc = 'failure';
	
	if (file_exists('post/' . $type . '.post.php')) {
		print_r($_POST);
		echo "\n\n";
		
		require_once('post/' . $type . '.post.php');
	} else {
		echo "\nfailure: type handler does not exist\n";
		exit;
	}

	echo "\n" . $rc . "\n";
?>

Handler that perform the input into the table

<?php if (!defined("VALID_POST")) { echo 'failure: you can\'t post to this url directly'; exit; }
	$rc = 'success';
	
	$sql = 'INSERT INTO "mylogs" ("id", "log") VALUES (next_id(\'mylogs\'), \'' . $log . '\');';
	
	if ($db->query($sql) === true)	
		echo "posted data\n";
	else {
		echo "Could not post Data\nfailure\n";
		exit;
	}
	
	$rc = 'success';
?>

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ASKER

I added the var_dump($_POST) and the length of the string was response was 48,303. I was looking to see if there was a limit on a variable in PHP, but it doesn't look there is one.

Dave Baldwin

Any chance your log file has non-ASCII characters? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hwfw5c59%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

There is no limit to the length of a string in PHP.

Can you please give us both of the string lengths? Thanks.

Also, could you please give me a URL for the log file so I can look at the 400K string? Thanks.

This appears to say what we already believe...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2364840/what-is-the-size-limit-of-a-post-request

Can you install this script and post a link to the URL here, please?

Can you tell us if you are using Suhosin?

<?php phpinfo();