HTTP POST holy grail

[sfarrow]

The lack of true HTTP POST support is causing us considerable grief in our development. We do have a requirement to construct larger xml documents on the client and post them for processing and storage.

I discovered today that Internet Explorer on Windows limits us to a maximum GET querystring length of around 1000 bytes. Mozilla does not seem to have such a limit. There is also no log feedback to indicate that anything is wrong. The request simply does not occur if the querystring length exceeds the threshold.

We have expended considerable time and energy into a Laszlo solution for a client that is intended to be Internet deployed. Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of imposing strict browser and version limitations on our users. We are close enough to the end of our development cycle that switching to an alternate user interface technology would have serious impact.

I would appreciate it if you would advise us as to when we can expect true POST support in your product. This will help us guide our course of action.

Thank you.

Steve.

[antun]

Sorry to hear about this. I'm looking into whether something can be done about the lack of POST. It's certainly something that we're aware of (actually I remember it coming up very recently on the forums).

You are aware of course that there are some problems with POST support on different clients altogether - this is a Flash player issue on a couple of browsers, right?

Architecturally, is there something that can be done in your app to avoid this problem (do some processing on the client)?

What's the scale of the intended deployment?

-Antun

[sfarrow]

Thanks Antun. Yes I reviewed your recent discussion with k-billy in this forum.

We have two projects on the go. One is a departmental application with a small user base. The other is a Internet deployed application that will have upwards of 50000 registered users but probably no more than 100 using the application concurrently.

Both projects are rolling out next month. Yes, there are steps we could take in the applications to reduce the size of the request, but this increases the number of trips to the server that we have to make and seriously complicates our architecture and development.

We were hoping that there was something that could be done on your end. As k-billy pointed out, could you not enable posting for those combinations of Flash player/browser that support it and leave the rest to documentation.

BTW, do you have any information on the upcoming release? What? When? We are very much interested in the Express Edition (XE).

Steve.